Google Translate PHP Client Broken
3/3/2016 · 1 min read
Trying to use the PHP Google API Client for Google Translate but can't get any translations out, always getting an empty array when you call getTranslations()?
Try this:
$client = new Google_Client();
$client->setDeveloperKey('xxxx-your-dev-key-xxxx');
$translate = new Google_Service_Translate($client);
$translations = $translate->translations->listTranslations('Hello world!', 'fr');
var_dump($translations->data);
var_dump($translations->data['translations'][0]["translatedText"]);
// Will give you
//
// array(1) {
// ["translations"]=>
// array(1) {
// [0]=>
// array(2) {
// ["translatedText"]=>
// string(17) "Bonjour le monde!"
// ["detectedSourceLanguage"]=>
// string(2) "en"
// }
// }
// }
// string(17) "Bonjour le monde!"
Unfortunately this client is generated, so it's not as simple as submitting a PR to fix it, but this still works to get hold of those awesome translations.