Two things:
First, could you provide a link to your page so we can see what your
Javascript looks like in completion? The snippet that you've provided
won't work because you're not really waiting for the translation API
to return before you actually submit the form. So the API returns its
result, but the browser isn't listening anymore.
Second, why don't you just use LWP or even LWP::Simple to run the
translation in the Perl program? It would dramatically simplify the
process by not having to wait for the API to return before the form is
actually submitted, and if you simply wrote a subroutine that would
run the translation, you could utilize it to translate your English
results back into French.
Rev. Jeremy R. Geerdes, Pastor
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On Oct 6, 2008, at 2:19 PM, Syl wrote:
>
> Hi - I've searched and searched without success.
>
> I have a legacy Perl search application.
> Although my database content is only in Englishm I want to use the API
> so that the word gets translated on the fly, and searches the
> translated word in order to return English results.
> Like this :
>
> User types in search for : acier
> API translates to : steel
> My perl function searches for : steel ........... and returns the
> results.
>
> Why is this not working (the $title is being passed successfully) :
>
> google.language.translate("$title", "fr", "en", function(result) {
> if (!result.error) {
> var sendToPerl;
>
> document.getElementById("sendToPerl").value=result.translation;
> }
>
> NOW PERL BEGINS :
> this returns empty :
> <input type="hidden" id="sendToPerl" value="$sendToPerl">
> so does this :
> document.write('<input type="text" name="sendToPerl" value="' +
> sendToPerl + '">');
>
> Altho FireFox does populate the text box with :
> [object HTMLInputElement]
>
> THANKS - Syl
>
>
>
> >
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