Alicia -- Which line throws that error? Also, are you clicking the button after the page loads? If you try to run that code immediately, it will fail since the <div id="translation"> hasn't been rendered at the time that script above it runs.
-Ben On Apr 16, 9:22 am, alicia130 <[email protected]> wrote: > I hope someone can help!! I've been beating my head against the wall > trying to figure this out for a while now. > > I have an admin site for an e-commerce site, that allows the admin to > do various things including adding new products and text. Currently > when new text is added, it has to be manually translated into multiple > languages and cut and pasted into the appropriate directory. A pain > in the neck. > > So I have been attempting to develop a translate button, that when > clicked will retrieve a file from the server, send the data to google, > translate it, and then update the server with the translated text. > > I have all of it working but one small piece. The onclick of the > 'Translate' button triggers the translateMe function, shown in part > below. I have PHP code that loops thru the file until it finds the > line that needs translated, and then sends that to google. The result > is placed in the innerHTML of the div "translation". > > Here's where my problem lies. Everything works up until I try to > access the div "translation" to return the translated data to my PHP > code to write the file to the server. Everything I do just tells me > the div is null, even though I can see the text (including > translations) on my screen. I'm not sure if this is because I still > see the message 'Transferring Data from www. . .. ." in the status bar > of the browser. I tried adding jquery to check for the ready status, > but that only checks for the initial page load, not the transferring > of data from Google. > > Please help!!! > > <script type="text/javascript" src="http://jqueryui.com/latest/ > jquery-1.3.2.js"></script> > <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/jsapi";></ > script> > <script type="text/javascript"> > > google.load("language", "1"); > > function translateMe(tlang){ > var translated = document.getElementById("translation"); > translated.innerHTML = " "; > <?php > for($count=1;$count<=count($file_array);$count++){ > $text = ($count . " " . str_replace('"','~', (trim > ($file_array[$count])))); > if (strpos($file_array[$count],' define(') != false) { > // translate text if it contains 'define(' > ?> > google.language.translate("<?php echo ($text);?>", 'en', tlang, > function(result) { > if (result.translation) { > translated.innerHTML += result.translation + "\n"; > } > }); <?php > } else { > > // move remaining text 'as is' to transText ?> > translated.innerHTML += "<?php echo ($text)?>" + "\n"; > <?php echo "\n"; > } > } > ?> > } > </script> > > <body> > <div id="translation"></div> > </body> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google AJAX APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-AJAX-Search-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
