Spell Checker
 

I would love to see a spell checker for current version of vB.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ighlight=spell
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=65737

these should help

Both of these almost work and are not fully compatible with 3.03. You can follow the instructions exactly and still not succeed. They both appear to work until it comes time for the spell checked text to move to the post block. That's where the functionality ends as the spell checked text never transfers over. To date, there is no known fix for this and I have looked across multiple forums for it.

Both of them are not working 100%, with no answers or solutions to any of their unique problems.

We need a third spell check hack, I think. Three years ago, vBulletin came with one (and it worked lovely), so why is it hard for someone to just make a new spell check based on that blueprint and design? I'd be willing to pay if that's what it takes.

The old stock version used a third party site to check the spelling, now a days people are looking for solutions that won't require any other service, hence the problems that have appered in the 'self hosted' spell check hacks.

There are plenty of sites that offer remote spell checking, but most now charge for said service, this is why it was removed from vB.

I don't care how it's done -- remote or self-hosted -- just as long as it works. I've seen products from both sides of the spectrum, and they're all flawed to one degree or another, not terribly so but enough to warrant possible complaints from members in the future.

I checked spellchecker.net and their fees are simply outrageous. $150 a year and ONLY a 10k session limit? My board is pretty active, with people asking for this thing every week, and a measily 10k cap for a year just won't work. They're the best out there, though.

It's a shame that a very basic message board service like EZBoard is able to have this important feature and present it to their users, yet the best forum on the 'net is either incapable or unwilling to have this critical feature included for their loyal customers at this time.

EZBoard hosts everything on their own servers. It's a lot easier to offer this function when you completely control the server.

A good "make-do" solution is to post a sticky thread and point people to:

www.iespell.com

Works great.

I've tried iespell and tested it by intentionally creating typos. Sometimes, it doesn't pick on all of them or *any* of them.

It is easy to have a self hosted spell as the majority of servers out there have pspell installed and useable. It would not be hard for Jelsoft to tailor something to operate with pspell correctly. I know at least one of the available hacks "Pungo Spell" attempts to use pspell and succeeds as far as that is concerned. What it does not do is transfer the information to the post field if using WYSIWYG.

One other thing about iespell is that it only works with Internet Explorer that I am aware of. It seems that more and more of my visitors are coming with Firefox and other Mozilla varients. I can't blame them either with all the issues with IE and Active X and such. Even with iespell, they are without a spell checker option.

I agree! Especially when you consider how much vB costs it should have basic features like a spellchecker included...

A spell checker for what language?

vBulletin is used in many different languages. Jelsoft should include spelling checkers for all those?

Well English would be a nice place to start...

Rome wasn't built in a day...

i dont have a use for a spell checker. there are words that would be flagged by it that may not be misspelled eg. center/centre both spellings are english. there are also other words that would be flagged because a spell checker cant check for transliteration. yes a spell checker would be nice but i wouldnt include it in the core package.

As an option you would be able to turn it on/off via the ACP just like any other 'feature'.

do you realize the size of dictionary files? what would be needed for a spellchecker? i've seen some 100-300megs in size just for english