Encode value to post to URL problem

[JosepM]

Hi,

I ask for help. I'm blocked with this issue. Maybe it's a silly question but I don't how do it.

I need call this URL http://mymemory.translated.net/api/get? ... pair=en|it

Where "red" is the text to translate, in this case from English to Italian. Since Google Translator isn't free this service from mymemory is a cool alternative.

I put this into a PHP script that return the translated text directly from the JSON that the URL return.

http://31.193.137.141/trans2.php?value=zimmer
In this case is from Deutsch to Italian.

My problem is that if the vaule that is passed by POST to the URL don't have any accented char they work perfectly, but if have any accented char don't work. I know that is a issue with the encode way to send the text.

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put "http://api.mymemory.translated.net/get?q=" & urlencode(utf8encode(tItem)) & "&langpair=" & tOrigen & "|" & tDestino into tURL
put URL tURL into tResult

Calling inside Livecode this work perfectly, but using by POST don't.

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put "http://31.193.137.141/trans2.php" into tURL
put "value" & "=" & tfrase into myPostData
put myPostData & " --> " & urlencode(utf8encode(tfrase)) & cr after fld "f_log"
Post myPostData to URL tURL
put it into tResult
put utf8decode(tResult) & cr after fld "f_log"
put "----" & cr after fld "f_log"
put tItem & "->" & utf8decode(tResult) & cr after fld "f_translated"

PHP Script

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<?php
header('Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8');
error_reporting(E_ALL);

if (isset($_POST['value']))
{
	$valor=($_POST['value']);
}
else
{
	$valor=($_GET['value']);
}

echo "http://mymemory.translated.net/api/get?q=".$valor."&langpair=de|it"."\n\n";

// creating curl resource
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://mymemory.translated.net/api/get?q=".$valor."&langpair=de|it");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "");

$output = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);      
$translate_it=json_decode($output,true);

$varuno = $translate_it['responseData']['translatedText'];
echo $varuno;
?>

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Salut,
Josep M

[SparkOut]

First glance, without having a chance to investigate properly, you are encoding tfrase for the log file, but not in the data you are posting. Is this intentional?

[JosepM]

Hi,

Sorry. tfrase is encoded in the field. So they have the same enconding.

Salut,
Josep M

[mwieder]

Josep-

Why are you trying to POST data to the service?
I don't see anything in the api documentation about supporting the POST verb.

Unless you're trying to contribute a new translation pair to the service it looks like you should just use an http get call to retrieve information.

[JosepM]

Hi,

The call to the API is inside the PHP script, I pass by POST to the script to call the API, then extract from the JSON the tranlated text and return it.

Salut,
Josep M