New Posting Features - vB Spell

What this does: vB Spell allows you to install a dictionary (English dictionary included) into your MysQL database, and provide a spell checking window that works in both of vB's editor modes, standard and WYSIWYG.

Background: This mod was originally developed by tamarian for vB 3.5.x. With the release of 3.6.x the installer stopped working for fresh installs and the template changes were considerably out of date, tamarian gave me permission to release a 3.6.x version with updates.
This version should work with both 3.5.x and 3.6.x series.

Features:

• Supports most recent versions of browsers. Tested on IE, Firefox, Mozilla/Netsacpe, Opera and Konqueror (Konqueror implies Safari, but please confirm Mac folks).
• Learn Feature uses cookies, so it won't increase the database size.
• Admin panel options.
• Spell Check button appears anywhere there is a WYSIWYG Enhanced or Standard Editor Toolbar [includes quickreply but not quickedit].
• Skips quoted text and other tags (PHP, code, etc.).
• Usergroup permisisons.
• Template based interface, and uses your default style.
• Link buttons (Thesarus and Lookup) with links to Merriam Webster's online thesarus and dictionary links with the suggestion for misspelled words.

Installation:

• Unzip main package.
• Upload the contents of the 'upload' folder to your forum home directory.
  Regular Install:
  • Unzip dictionary-reg.zip.
  • Upload DICTIONARY.DIC to your forum home directory.
  Alternate Install
  • Unzip dictionary-alt.zip.
  • Import the SQL files to your database.
• Import product-spellvb.xml.
• Go to AdminCP > vBulletin Options > vB Spell and edit your usergroup permisisons.
• Template changes are now automatic. [accept for quickedit]

Q: What is the Alternate Install method for?
A: If you are having problems with the Regular Install (such as your dictionary import freezes at x%) then you should consider using the Alternate Install. If neither of these methods work for you then there might be an issue with your server host.

Upgrading:

• Unzip main package.
• Upload the contents of the 'upload' folder to your forum home directory.
• Import product-spellvb.xml.

To manually force the quickedit template to work with this mod:
postbit_quickedit
Find

		<if condition="is_browser('ie')">
			<td><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_editor]/separator.gif" width="6" height="20" alt="" /></td>
			<td><div class="imagebutton" id="{$editorid}_cmd_spelling"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_editor]/spelling.gif" width="21" height="20" alt="$vbphrase[check_spelling]" /></div></td>
		</if>

Replace with

		<td><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_editor]/separator.gif" width="6" height="20" alt="" /></td>
		<td><div class="imagebutton" id="{$editorid}_cmd_spelling(null)"><img onclick="spellCheck('3', '$editorid', '2');" src="$stylevar[imgdir_editor]/spelling.gif" width="21" height="20" alt="$vbphrase[check_spelling]" /></div></td>

History:
0.10.x NyNe versions
v0.10.3b - 06/22/07:
Compensated for an issue brought up in this post.
v0.10.3 - 06/22/07:
Added a check to the product installer so it would not remove the vbspell table after just having created it.
Added $vboptions[bburl] to all template code that asks for files (this *might* fix the PhotoPost issues - no promises).
v0.10.2b - 08/26/06:
Fixed error in product installer (removed table prefix).
Changed all <? to <?php for php5 compatibility.
v0.10.2a - 08/26/06:
Removed alt product installer.
Product installer included now checks for dictionary file, if dictionary file is not found it continues installing.
Product installer no longer drops dictionary table before installing.
v0.10.2 - 08/22/06:
vbspell template is now XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
Fixed a version check for vbspell template (made compatible with 3.5.x).
vB Spell window should now open on top of other windows.
Removed table prefix for vbspell sql table (product installer includes code to remove old tables).
Included alternate installation method (Credit goes to Replicators for the SQL Install method).
v0.10.1 - 08/21/06:
Beta release for 3.6.x series.
Switched to product/plugin based installer.

0.9.x tamarian versions
v0.9.12 - 12/25/05:
Security fix for cases where you allow HTML posts and they contain malicious code (Credit goes to Brendan Donahue for finding the issue and alerting TechGuy, and to TechGuy for alerting me to it).
v0.9.11 - 11/02/05:
Fixes a bug with slashes in text.
v0.9.10 - 10/17/05:
Check for primary and secondary group for permission.
Bug fix for quoted words.
v0.9.9 - 09/13/05:
Bugfix for JS on IE with RC3.
v0.9.8 - 07/15/05:
Bugfix for JS code mismatch with template.
v0.9.7 - 07/14/05:
Initial release for vB 3.5 beta-4.

NOTE: The above section says NyNe versions, because I go by the name NyNe everywhere accept here.

Scrrenshots: (from tamarian's 3.0.7, but it's identical)

[bashy]

monForum I would remove your IP address and username from the above post m8

[davidw]

monforum, I suspect you have had vbspell previously installed on your forums. If so, you will need to reupload the old install script for the OLD vbspell and run the install script and choose UNINSTALL (the lower half). Once done, this will remove the duplicate entries in the database that the NEW vbspell product is objecting to. After that, you should be able to install the product.

[lucky64]

Originally Posted by ColeEsque

Hi,

Im getting this message when I mis-spell a word.

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.0:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT word FROM vbspell WHERE word = 'fhdfdsdafadsfdsafdadfsfadsf';

MySQL Error  : Table 'courtiers.vbspell' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Date         : Friday, September 8th 2006 @ 03:11:00 AM
Script       : http://www.thecourtiers.com/theforum/vbspell.php
Referrer     : http://www.thecourtiers.com/theforum/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=23
IP Address   :
Username     :
Classname    : vb_database

Any ideas?

Thanks,

C

Same error here.

Fresh install, latest version of the product.

Removed line, uninstalled, reinstalled, works.

[agiacosa]

Any news on this? Waiting to install on a 3.6.1.

[captainslater]

Originally Posted by lucky64

Same error here.

Fresh install, latest version of the product.

Removed line, uninstalled, reinstalled, works.

Have you tried to manullay create the table in the database?

[agiacosa]

Dominic,

If you are referring to me, no. I'm afraid of a mod that I have to start by removing code lines and then manually installing databases.

[r5e]

I have just upgraded my board to 3.6.1. I had vbspell installed when it was 3.5.3. Curiously, it did not appear in my list of products, therefore could not be uninstalled.
I have a clean system, with all other products removed. I have carefully followed all the instructions and I get the identical problem that everyone here reports (gets to 99% then has the error "Duplicate entry 'vbspell_allow_all' for key 1").
Finding the old product, re-installing and then removing again does not sound like fun.
Can anyone give me a rough idea where I would start to manually remove the tables from the old sucker? I am guessing that there is simply a vbspell table somewhere in my SQL and I am thinking that if I can just find it, delete the whole thing, this will fix the problem. Am I on the right track? If so, could someone please get me started on how I would go about doing this?

[davidw]

I didn't have to reinstall the old vbspell, but actually only upload the install file and do the uninstall from there.

[r5e]

Originally Posted by christianb

I didn't have to reinstall the old vbspell, but actually only upload the install file and do the uninstall from there.

Well, I did that (I'd forgotten that there was a php script used rather than the xml file - no wonder it did not appear in my list of products.)

Once I'd copied the script to the admin dir, I ran it, clicked on the uninstall and watched it go through all the steps successfully, telling me it was deleting all the bits properly on the way.

I then installed the product using the xml, but now it just seems to freeze somewhere between 50% and 98% (slightly different each time). It never gets far enough to give an error or to get complete.

It did complete (with the error) before I had done the uninstall of the old by re-uploading the php script from the old version (v0.9.12 ? vbspell_install.php). I know this because although it did not work , it still appeared in my list of products (I have since uninstalled it from there in my latest attempts).

Regardless of what I do now, the xml install just freezes at a different part with no error messages each time. When it freezes, there are no error messages, but the browser just says "done" instead of "loading" suddenly then it stops - eg:

Processing: 181912... (93%)
Processing: 184914... (95%)
Processing: 187820... (96%)
Processing: 190621... (98%)

Seems to me that I am completely stuck now and at the point of just giving up on it. A shame as this is the only real spell check for VB. I really wish it could be just built in and use AJAX to work to do funky things like automatically underlining words that it found wrong like modern apps do, but I would be happy with this if it just worked :tired: .

[davidw]

Curious, are you uploading the dictionary.doc file? If you are, you may want to hold off on doing so and try installing it without that in place. I had no issues just installing it as a product (without the dictionary.doc) and then I inserted the sql manually. Before you go back and retry, however, you may want to go to your vbspell table and remove the contents (what was previously inserted) including the vbspell table itself.