watson-developer-cloud/php-sdk

Client library to use the IBM Watson Services

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5.0 2017-06-02 00:00 UTC

Apache-2.0

• Thomas

• dialog
• alchemy
• alchemyapi
• conversation
• ibm
• Language Translation
• watson
• visual recognition
• chatbot
• tone analyzer
• wdc
• watson developer cloud
• message resonance
• user modeling
• personality insights
• machine translation
• concept expansion
• question and answer
• relationship extraction
• language identification
• speech to text
• text to speech
• concept insights
• tradeoff analytics
• retrieve and rank
• natural language classifier
• tone_analyzer
• alchemy vision
• alchemy language
• alchemy datanews

README

The PHP SDK uses the Watson Developer Cloud services, a collection of REST APIs and SDKs that use cognitive computing to solve complex problems.

Table of Contents

• Installation
  • Composer
• Usage
• Getting the Service Credentials
• Questions
• IBM Watson Services
  • Discovery
  • Natural Language Understanding
  • Natural Language Classifier
  • Personality Insights
  • Tone Analyzer

Installation

Composer

All the services:

'composer require watson-developer-cloud/php-sdk'

or

Add require to your project composer.json file

{
    "require": {
        "watson-developer-cloud/php-sdk": "^5.0"
    }
}

Usage

The examples within each service assume that you already have service credentials. If not, you will have to create a service in Bluemix.

If you are running your application in Bluemix, you don't need to specify the credentials; the library will get them for you by looking at the VCAP_SERVICES environment variable.

Getting the Service Credentials

You will need the username and password (api_key for Discovery API) credentials for each service. Service credentials are different from your Bluemix account username and password.

To get your service credentials, follow these steps:

1. Log in to Bluemix at https://bluemix.net.

2. Create an instance of the service:

   1. In the Bluemix Catalog, select the service you want to use.
   2. Under Add Service, type a unique name for the service instance in the Service name field. For example, type my-service-name. Leave the default values for the other options.
   3. Click Create.

3. Copy your credentials:

   1. On the left side of the page, click Service Credentials to view your service credentials.
   2. Copy username and password(api_key for Discovery API).

Once you have credentials, copy config.properties.example to src/test/resources/config.properties, and fill them in as necessary.

Questions

If you are having difficulties using the APIs or you have a question about the IBM Watson Services, please ask a question on dW Answers or Stack Overflow.

License

This library is licensed under Apache 2.0. Full license text is available in LICENSE.