1. Automate your content translation with the Google Translate API.
Bill Juda
Github: judaw

2. Who am I?
Webmaster
Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
8 area studies programs of the center
Been working in Drupal for about 5 years
Frontend and Backend Developer, Server Admin

3. Why are we trying to solve this problem?
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and it partners want to create a forum site where members can have scholarly conversation.
Members should be able to post in their native languages.
Our first use case:
4 languages: English, Chinese Simplified, Japanese, Korean

4. Defining what we want from our multilingual site.
A multilingual site
Automated, instantaneous translation
Content added in any language
Ability to edit translations

5. What modules will we use?
Core Modules
Languages
Content Translation
Custom Module
We will use the many Entity API functions.
We will connect to the Google Translate API using the Google Client Library

6. The process. Create a node.
Upon saving you will view node. (hook_entity_view).
Get all languages of the site excluding the source language.
For each language.
Add translation.
Get all the translatable fields.
Send each field to Google to be translated.
Put translated content into new translation.
Save the translation.
View translations.

7. Step 1: Configure Drupal
Turn on Language and Content Translation
Create a content type and configure the fields to be translatable.

8. Step 2: Connect to Google Translate API
I wrote a custom module.
Uses the Google client library and custom code to connect to API.
For developers using composer
composer require google/cloud

9. Step 3: Create content
Once we have configured Drupal and enabled our custom code we will be ready to add content to our site.

10. Live Demo

11. Google API Links Google API overview documentation
Google API client libraries
Google client libraries documentation

12. Contact Information
Office: 164 Uris Hall
Phone: