[headline]

I've laid some groundwork for this plugin idea, but have no interest in finishing it so here's my offer to you. Basically, I want gameservers to be engaging for all players across all language barriers. This is how I think this can be accomplished.

Description:
A plugin which translates all text chat messages to & from a specific client who doesn't speak the server's main language. There are multiple ways this can be formatted, but here's what I was thinking

(Me as a German speaker in an English server.)

Some Player: Hey, Headline. How old are you?
Some Player {TRANSLATED FOR YOU}: Hallo, Headline. Wie alt bist du?
Headline: Ich bin 20
Headline {TRANSLATED FOR OTHERS}: I am 20

What I've done:

I've made a small php script which uses Google Translate's API hosted @ http://headlinedev.xyz/translate/translate.php
With get parameters of 'input' and 'target' where 'target' is the target language (spanish is 'es', for example).


Here's some code for you that I mocked up with an example request. There are some challenges that'd need to be worked out, but that's up to you to solve.

PHP Code:

#include <sdktools>
#include <SteamWorks>

public void Example()
{
    Handle request = CreateRequest("Hello, My name is \"headline\"", "es", 0);
    SteamWorks_SendHTTPRequest(request);
}

Handle CreateRequest(char[] input, char[] target, int client)
{
    Handle request = SteamWorks_CreateHTTPRequest(k_EHTTPMethodGET, "http://www.headlinedev.xyz/translate/translate.php");
    SteamWorks_SetHTTPRequestGetOrPostParameter(request, "input", input);
    SteamWorks_SetHTTPRequestGetOrPostParameter(request, "target", target);
    
    SteamWorks_SetHTTPRequestContextValue(request, GetClientUserId(client));
    SteamWorks_SetHTTPCallbacks(request, Callback_OnHTTPResponse);
    return request;
}

public int Callback_OnHTTPResponse(Handle request, bool bFailure, bool bRequestSuccessful, EHTTPStatusCode eStatusCode, int userid)
{
    if (!bRequestSuccessful || eStatusCode != k_EHTTPStatusCode200OK)
    {        
        return;
    }

    int iBufferSize;
    SteamWorks_GetHTTPResponseBodySize(request, iBufferSize);
    
    char[] result = new char[iBufferSize];
    SteamWorks_GetHTTPResponseBodyData(request, result, iBufferSize);
    delete request;

    
    // do something with result
}