ATran

Making Microsoft translator API version 3 consumption easier in Laravel 5+.

Through this integration you can do the following

• Detects text information such as language code and script. Refer to ATran@detectTextInformation.
• Detects list of text information such as language code and script. Refer to ATran@detectTextsInformation.
• Translates text from one language to one or multiple languages. Refer to ATran@translateText.
• Produces transliteration of text from one language to another. Refer to ATran@transliterateTextInformation.
• Request available languages for translation including list of languages code. Refer to ATran@translationsAvailable.
• Request available languages for transliteration including list of available scripts. Refer to ATran@transliterationAvailable.

Laravel Microsoft Translator Integration

There are 3 files to have a look at so to understand how the integration works

• config/atran.php (Configuration of API endpoints & authorisation key)
• routes.php (Configuring PlayWithAPIController routes)
• ATran\Translate\PlayWithAPIController (A Controller with on hand methods playing with the API endpoints)

Required Packages

"guzzlehttp/guzzle": "^7.0.1",
"tebru/gson-php": "^0.7.3"

Installation for Laravel 5+. Tested on 8.40.

• 1- Go to your laravel project root directory and install the package locally:-

composer require "atran/translate"

• 2- Install the service provider and load config as well as routes references:-

php artisan vendor:publish

• 3- Choose "ATran\Translate\ATranServiceProvider" provider from the list via typing its index value.

• 4- Go to env file and include at the bottom:-

AZURETRAN_KEY=Azure Cognitive Services API SUBSCRIPTION KEY

• 5- Well Done!

Installation for older Laravel

You may expect more debugging to get it working.

• 1- Go to your laravel project root directory and install the package locally:-

composer require "atran/translate"

• 2- Add ATran service provider manually to the providers list in config/app.php:-

'providers' => [
    // ...
    ATran\Translate\\ATranServiceProvider::class,
]

• 3- Load config as well as routes references:-

php artisan vendor:publish --force --provider="ATran\Translate\ATranServiceProvider"

• 4- Go to env file and include at the bottom:-

AZURETRAN_KEY=Azure Cognitive Services API SUBSCRIPTION KEY

• 5- Well Done!

Demo with PlayWithAPIController and Postman

Configuration

• Codebase Configuration

-1 Go To PlayWithAPIController

-2 Go to definition of detectTextInformation and transliterationsAvailable.

-3 Examine the functions

• detectTextInformation | Postman Configuration to route "http://yourwebsite.com/detecttext" and POST type.

-1 Include following headers:-

Accept: application/json

2- Include following Body: form-data

KEY     TEXT
text    Hello

3- Response

{
    "language": "en",
    "score": 1,
    "isTranslationSupported": true,
    "isTransliterationSupported": false,
    "alternatives": [
        {
            "language": "de",
            "score": 1,
            "isTranslationSupported": true,
            "isTransliterationSupported": false
        },
        {
            "language": "fr",
            "score": 1,
            "isTranslationSupported": true,
            "isTransliterationSupported": false
        }
    ]
}

• transliterationsAvailable | Postman Configuration to route "http://yourwebsite.com/transliterationavailable" and POST type.

-1 Include following headers:-

Accept: application/json

2- Response

{
    "ar": {
        "name": "Arabic",
        "nativeName": "العربية",
        "scripts": [
            {
                "code": "Arab",
                "name": "Arabic",
                "nativeName": "العربية",
                "dir": "rtl",
                "toScripts": [
                    {
                        "code": "Latn",
                        "name": "Latin",
                        "nativeName": "اللاتينية",
                        "dir": "ltr"
                    }
                ]
            },
            {
                "code": "Latn",
                "name": "Latin",
                "nativeName": "اللاتينية",
                "dir": "ltr",
                "toScripts": [
                    {
                        "code": "Arab",
                        "name": "Arabic",
                        "nativeName": "العربية",
                        "dir": "rtl"
                    }
                ].............

Usage

Import Use at the top in any of your laravel project controllers

use ATran;

Access functions through

ATran::detectTextInformation($text);

Available functions

• detectTextInformation($text)
• detectTextsInformation($texts)
• transliterateTextInformation($text,$language,$fromscript,$toscript)
• translateText($text, $to)
• transliterationsAvailable($languagecode = null)
• translationsAvailable($languagecode = null)

About

The ATran package was published under The Unlicense licence. If you have any problems, please feel free to reach out at [email protected].