I get the following error:
Catchable fatal error: Argument 1 passed to CorenlpAdapter::getOutput() must be an instance of string, string given, called in /Library/WebServer/Documents/website/php-stanford-corenlp-adapter/index.php on line 22 and defined in /Library/WebServer/Documents/website/php-stanford-corenlp-adapter/src/CoreNLP/CorenlpAdapter.php on line 95
index.php 21 and 22 contain:
$text1 = 'I will meet Mary in New York at 10pm';
$coreNLP->getOutput($text1);
corenlpAdapter.php lines 95 and onwards contain:
public function getOutput(string $text){
if(ONLINE_API){
// run the text through the public API
$this->getServerOutputOnline($text);
} else{
// run the text through Java CoreNLP
$this->getServerOutput($text);
}
// cache result
$this->serverMemory[] = $this->serverOutput;
if(empty($this->serverOutput)){
echo '** ERROR: No output from the CoreNLP Server **<br />
- Check if the CoreNLP server is running. Start the CoreNLP server if necessary<br />
- Check if the port you are using (probably port 9000) is not blocked by another program<br />';
die;
}
/**
* create trees
*/
$sentences = $this->serverOutput['sentences'];
foreach($this->serverOutput['sentences'] as $sentence){
$tree = $this->getTreeWithTokens($sentence); // gets one tree
$this->trees[] = $tree; // collect all trees
}
/**
* add OpenIE data
*/
$this->addOpenIE();
// to get the trees just call $coreNLP->trees in the main program
return;
}
Why exactly am I getting this error when text1 is a string?
public function getOutput($text){
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}
I am the original author of this class. As you can see, the function getOutput looks like this:
public function getOutput(string $text){
...
}
Change that to:
public function getOutput($text){
...
}
The function tries to enforce that the input is string. The original code should work. However, it seems that in your case, PHP thinks "string" is not actually a string. Maybe the coding environment (the IDE) you are using uses the wrong character set? Or maybe you copy-pasted the code from HTML into the IDE or something like that. Thus whilst it says "string" on the screen, it's not actually a string to PHP.
If you are sure the input is a string, you can safely change the code like above. The class should then work normally.