Thanx Jeremy. I'm using PHP and found this much faster than server-client-api-client exchange with JS. The only thing is i didn't found anything about POST method using with PHP in the documentation. "Other" section for flash and php takes smallest part of whole doc. Will try to search more thoroughly. Just one request instead of N GET chunks should be even faster + less google server load.
Will be grateful if you can give me direction on finding info about POST. Again thanx for your reply. On Oct 12, 7:45 pm, Jeremy Geerdes <[email protected]> wrote: > Depending on how you use the Language API, you could be right on. > Technically speaking, there is a 5,000-character limit on the > urlencoded string you can translate. But to utilize that full 5,000 > characters, you have to submit the request via the POST method. In > other words, you can't use the JS side of the API. If you're wanting > to roll the translations client-side, the limit is a bit tougher to > nail down, but 256 symbols should be good. In most cases, they should > urlencode out to 1,000 or fewer characters, which is about as many as > you want. The trick in both cases is that you'll want to split the > string by character length, but also by syntax. In other words, you > want to keep sentences and clauses together because the machine > translation matrix on the backend works significantly better with a > complete thought than with just pieces. > > Jeremy R. Geerdes > Effective website design & development > Des Moines, IA > > For more information or a project > quote:http://jgeerdes.home.mchsi.comhttp://jgeerdes.blogspot.comhttp://jgeerdes.wordpress.com > [email protected] > > Unless otherwise noted, any price quotes contained within this > communication are given in US dollars. > > If you're in the Des Moines, IA, area, check out Debra Heights > Wesleyan Church! > > And check out my blog, Adventures in Web Development, > athttp://jgeerdes.blogspot.com > ! > > On Oct 12, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Contrasso wrote: > > > > > Hi, i've just made website multilanguage version using translate api > > and php. > > > Next i thought that it could have sence to check service availability > > each time user opens my website and IF NOT AVAILABLE hide language > > switch feature from a page. > > > Q1: is there is way to check language API availability? > > > 2nd thing is string length. I didn't found info about limitation in > > the documentation, though this is more HTML thing than API's. Nayways, > > intuitively i splitted string into smaller chains. > > > Q2: Is that optimal way to split string into chunks of 256 symbols and > > call api for each chunk? > > > Thanx for replies. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
