Translator Online in PHP -- HELP!

diogo007

I was to try to create a translator and the result is this that is in low:

 <title>Translator Online</title>  

<?php  

if(empty($dicionario)) {  

;  

}  

else {  

$texto = $texto;  

$final = $texto;  

$final = " " . $final . " ";  

$dicionario = $dicionario;  

$path = translator/dic;  

/* Search of words */  

$source = fopen("$path/$dicionario/ex_source.txt", "r");  

$destination = fopen("$path/$dicionario/ex_dest.txt", "r");  

$original = "vazio";  

$modificado = "vazio";  

while (!feof($source)) {  

$original = fgets($source, 200);  

$modificado = fgets($destination, 200);  

$original = trim($original);  

$modificado =  trim($modificado);  

/* To substitute expressions */  

if (strlen($original) == 0) break;  

$final = str_replace("\n", "<br> ", $final);  

$final = str_replace( " " . $original ." " , " " . $modificado . " ", $final);  

$final = str_replace( " " . $original ."." , " " . $modificado . ".", $final);  

$final = str_replace( " " . $original .":" , " " . $modificado . ":", $final);  

$final = str_replace( " " . $original ."," , " " . $modificado . ",", $final);  

$final = str_replace( " " . $original ."!" , " " . $modificado . "!", $final);  

$final = str_replace( " " . $original ."¡" , " " . $modificado . "¡", $final);  

$final = str_replace( " " . $original ."?" , " " . $modificado . "?", $final);  

$final = str_replace( " " . $original ."¿" , " " . $modificado . "¿", $final);  

$final = str_replace( " " . $original .";" , " " . $modificado . ";", $final);  

$final = str_replace( " " . $original ."/ " , " " . $modificado . "/", $final);  

}  

fclose ($source);  

fclose ($destination);  

$final = trim($final);  

}  

?>  

<br><br><b>Translator:</b>  

<table border="2" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="95%" id="AutoNumber1">  

  <tr>  

    <td width="100%"><font size="2"><? echo $final; ?></font>&nbsp;</td>  

  </tr>  

</table><br>  

<FORM ACTION="" method="post" onSubmit="return verifyTEXT()" name="transform">  

<b>Dictionary:</b> <select size="1" name="dicionario">  

<option value="engpor">English -&gt; Portuguese</option>  

<option value="poreng">Portuguese -&gt; English</option>  

</select><br><b>&gt;</b> <i>Write in bass the text to translate.</i><br>  

<TEXTAREA COLS="44" ROWS="7" NAME="texto"><? echo $texto; ?></TEXTAREA><BR><BR>  

<DIV ALIGN="center"><INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="submit" VALUE="Translater"></DIV>  

</FORM>

In this translator the only problem is the letters capital letters that he doesn't translate. If somebody knows as solving this problem it informs me.

Observation: For my the problem is capital letter for capital letter and not capital letter for lower case (Example: Hello -> Olá and not Hello -> olá).

diogo007

What I want exactly is to translate the capital letters without having to create a dictionary for they.
Ex: My NAME is Jon. -> Meu NOME é Jon.

Somebody knows to decide this problem. I already have some ready dictionaries. 🙁

stfuji

There are some interesting implications in this problem...

If you want to preserve exact case more than the first letter or a whole word (ex HelLo) then this would not be particularly easy because the translation has a different number of letters and can not preserve the case settings. (ie HelLo -> Ola [but the forth letter is cap and tense is lost)

However if you were only concerned with
1) All Capital or all lowercase cases and mix cases could all be of the form 1letter capital rest lowercase it might be an easy solution.

I would assume 1) and then do a test on the pretranslation word

check the first letter for case


function caseString($pretranslatedWord, $translatedWord){

 if(strncmp($pretranslatedword, ucfirst($pretranslatedword), 1) == 0){
      $translatedWord = ucfirst($translatedWord);

      if(strcmp($pretranslatedword, strtoupper($pretranslatedword)) == 0){
           $translatedWord = strtoupper($translatedWord)
      }
 } else {
      $translatedWord = strtolower($translatedWord);
 }
 return $translatedWord
}

That might do the trick,

-Geoffrey

diogo007

Originally posted by stfuji
There are some interesting implications in this problem...

If you want to preserve exact case more than the first letter or a whole word (ex HelLo) then this would not be particularly easy because the translation has a different number of letters and can not preserve the case settings. (ie HelLo -> Ola [but the forth letter is cap and tense is lost)

However if you were only concerned with
1) All Capital or all lowercase cases and mix cases could all be of the form 1letter capital rest lowercase it might be an easy solution.

I would assume 1) and then do a test on the pretranslation word

check the first letter for case
function caseString($pretranslatedWord, $translatedWord){

 if(strncmp($pretranslatedword, ucfirst($pretranslatedword), 1) == 0){
      $translatedWord = ucfirst($translatedWord);

      if(strcmp($pretranslatedword, strtoupper($pretranslatedword)) == 0){
           $translatedWord = strtoupper($translatedWord)
      }
 } else {
      $translatedWord = strtolower($translatedWord);
 }
 return $translatedWord
}
That might do the trick,

-Geoffrey [/B]

You it could adapt this function to my code?

diogo007

Since nobody you restitute at least to the from above message they can say another code!!! :mad:

diogo007

I placed plus a reply… three followed. I do not want to make flood, that nobody only helps me in this topic. Nobody helped (taking off one that was for the half).