google translate (no payed api)

[patryk]

i was going trough googlt translator's client side code and came up with this:

PHP Code:

function google_translate($from, $to, $text){
    //fake user-agent
    ini_set('user_agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3');
    ini_set('default_charset', 'utf-8');//set encoding in case it's other than utf-8 (you might need to re-set it afterwords)
    $get_string = 'hl=' . $from . '&tl=' . $to . '&q=' . urlencode($text);
    $data = file_get_contents('http://translate.google.com/?' . $get_string);
    $DOM = new DOMDocument;
    $DOM->loadHTML($data);
    $items = $DOM->getElementById('result_box');
    return $items->nodeValue;
} 


it's very simple function. instead of using regular API, it takes html document served by google translator, extracts translated words and returns them
usage:

google_translate($source_language, $target_language, $text);

for example: if you want to translate 'some text' from english to italian, and print result, it would be

PHP Code:

echo google_translate('en', 'it', 'some text'); 


i've been looking for decent free translator with api for very long time with no luck, so i've decided to spare you guys some time