since google announced on may 26th of 2011, that in december 2011 the google translate API will no longer be available.. I doubt using a method without the API to tap into their translator would be very polite, possibly even illegal?

Would microsoft's API work with php via http? Would accessing http pages with a shell php program create memory leaks? Unsure if an php thread for the bot, that opens something like curl, would really close out the whole way, if the php thread doesnt close too?