Grammar Checking in PHP

PHP is a popular scripting language for the web. It is typically processed on a web server as a module, daemon or CGI executable. Many popular web services are written in PHP including well-known websites such as Facebook and frameworks like Wordpress.

Sapling: AI Writing Assistant

With Sapling, you can add grammar or spell checking functionality to an existing PHP application.

This page demonstrates a quick way to integrate grammar and spell checking functionality into a PHP application using Sapling's API. If you are not looking for a PHP guide, click here for guides for other programming languages.

Sapling does not currently maintain a PHP-specific SDK, but you can access the Sapling Grammar Checking HTTP API using any programming language that supports HTTP POST requests. An example is shown below.

Setup Steps

[Register] for an account.
Visit the [dashboard] to generate an API key.
Run the code below, filling in your API key.

PHP Grammar Check Quickstart


$url = 'https://api.sapling.ai/api/v1/edits';
$key = '<API_KEY>';
$postdata = json_encode(array(
    'key' => $key,
    'text' => 'Lets get started!',
    'session_id' => 'Test Document UUID'
));

$context = stream_context_create(array(
    'http' => array(
        'method' => 'POST',
        'header' => array(
            'Content-Type: application/json',
            'Content-Length: ' . strlen($postdata)
        ),
        'content' => $postdata
    )
));

$response = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
$responseData = json_decode($response, TRUE);
echo $response;

Returned result:

{
    "edits":[
      {
          "end":4,
          "error_type":"R:OTHER",
          "general_error_type":"Other",
          "id":"aa5ee291-a073-5146-8ebc-c9c899d01278",
          "replacement":"Let's",
          "sentence":"Lets get started!",
          "sentence_start":0,
          "start":0
      }
    ]
}

Documentation

Addtional parameters and Sapling's full API documentation can be accessed here: https://sapling.ai/docs