Transliterating english to Kannada

batchEntoKn.php

<?php

/**
Trasliterate method takes 5 , seaparated english words and transliterates them into Kannada,
The result is an array of words in the same order. This uses Non public Google online transliteration API for this.
When you run this method give a 10ms seconds gap between each call to be on the safer side.

By : Thejesh GN http://thejeshgn.com
More: http://thejeshgn.com/2011/02/04/batch-transliterating-names-into-kannada-using-google-api/

**/
function transliterate($comma_seaparated_words){
	$api_url = "http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic?tlqt=1&langpair=en|kn&text=".$comma_seaparated_words."&&tl_app=1";
	$curl_handle=curl_init();
	curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_URL,$api_url);
	curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,2);
	curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
	$buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle);
	curl_close($curl_handle);
        $traliterated_return;
	if (empty($buffer))
	{
	    print "Sorry, example.com are a bunch of poopy-heads.<p>";
	}
	else
	{
            
	    //JSON returned by google is not right, so hacking it. 	
	    $r = str_replace(",\n]","]", $buffer);
	    $j = json_decode($r);
	    $traliterated_return[0] = $j[0]->hws[0];
	    $traliterated_return[1] = $j[1]->hws[0];
	    $traliterated_return[2] = $j[2]->hws[0];
	    $traliterated_return[3] = $j[3]->hws[0];
	    $traliterated_return[4] = $j[4]->hws[0];

	}

	    return $traliterated_return;	
}


/* Test run starts
returns are in UTF-8 format, hence setting the charset
*/
print "<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=utf-8'/>"; 
$kn = transliterate("thejesh,ramesh,uthara,shreenivasa,reddy");
print $kn[0]."<p>";
print $kn[1]."<p>";
print $kn[2]."<p>";
print $kn[3]."<p>";
print $kn[4]."<p>";
/* Test run ends*/

?>

Trasliterate method takes 5 , seaparated english words and transliterates them into Kannada, The result is an array of words in the same order. This uses Non public Google online transliteration API for this. When you run this method give a 10ms seconds gap between each call to be on the safer side.