Comments on: Server Side Language Detection with Google Language API

By: john

john — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:16:09 +0000

Hi Samuel,
Your function is working good except few languages that it doesn’t support(ar,ru and few more)
Do you have an idea why is that?
Thanks both of you for this feature, it will help me allot.

By: Ajith

Ajith — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:12:00 +0000

Wonderful stuff

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By: Russ

Russ — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:14:37 +0000

Have you tried this serverside recently? I just tried it and got a json message “Suspected Terms of Service Abuse”. If I really wanted to “abuse” this service I guess I could fake all the headers that the jsonp request would do… Would be nice if google provided a way to do this, they do it for their translation service: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/#fonje

By: Samuel

Samuel — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:44:19 +0000

Thanks a lot, Lode. This still works like a charm.

I changed the code, so there is no need for Zend Framework:
function detect_language($text) { /* NOTE: Google is currently using version 1.0. If this changes in the future, change the value of this variable. Otherwise the URL will not work anymore. */ $version = '1.0'; $url = 'http://www.google.com/uds/GlangDetect?v='.$version. '&q='.urlencode($text);


	/* Get the (multidimensional) associative array from the JSON

	   NOTE: json_decode() requires PHP >= 5.2.0 */

	$response = json_decode(file_get_contents($url), true);

if ($response['responseStatus'] == 200) return $response['responseData']['language']; else return false; }

By: Herman Tolentino

Herman Tolentino — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:02:40 +0000

Perfect! Thanks for posting this!

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:48:48 +0000

Wow! Awesome stuff. I was wondering if you have any spare time to help guide me to get this working on my site?

Erik
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By: Ken Weiner

Ken Weiner — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:01:05 +0000

Thank you so much for posting this! I have been looking all over for a server-side way of detecting the language of a piece of text. I am going to try porting your idea to Ruby or Java.