Spell checker: PHPSpell for vBulletin3 WYSIWYG and Standard mode

PHPSpell for vBulletin3 WYSIWYG and Standard mode

Intro: PHPSpell uses a MySQL based disctionary and requires no additional tools than your standard PHP/MySQL setup. One draw back to this hack is that while it works with vBulletin in WYSIWYG mode, the popup window will still display html and vBCode tags. But the advantages are numerous, such as the "learn" capability and the admin tool.

There is another hack https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=65737 for PungoSpell that supports WYSIWYG mode disply on the spell check popup window. It has less features than PHPSpell, but it supports WYSIWYG display. Check it out, and compare which one is best for your forum.

Credit PHPSpell Was written for PHPBB, and then expanded to work for all major forum software, including vB2 and vB3. Due to vB3's WYSIWYG mode, PHPSpell only supports standard mode. This hack will allow it to work for both standard and WYSIWYG.

If you like this software, please click the PayPal button on the Author's site, so they'll add more features. Their future plans so far include:

* PHPBB Template integration
* Other Languages (Currently supports English & Russian)
* Finish Language support so that hardcoded output is stored in language files
* Ability to delete Learned Words for the end user
* Ability for Admin to View/Edit/Delete words in installed dictionaries
* Ability for Admin to export Dictionaries
* Ability for end user to choose which Dictionary/Thesaurus Site to use
* Ability for end user to be able to change which Language to use
* Ability for end user to change # of words to find.
* Ability for Integrated Dictionary/Thesaurus
* Other Program Integration

Demo: http://www.master-technology.com/demos/spell/index.php

What this hack does This hack modifies the PHPSpell software package from PHPSpell to allow spell checking on vBulletin for both modes, WYSIWYG and standard mode.

Note: You will see tags like <br> and others in WYSIWYG and BBCode in standard mode. Edit the config file to ignore them. This happens in both WYSIWYG mode, and in standard mode. It will show the tags, but it will not spell check them. This hack does not add new features to the spell checker, it just makes it work, as designed, for vB3 in both WYSIWYG and standard mode.

Instructions

1. Download the attached file, and unpack into a new directory called "spelling" below your forum directory.

2. Edit the config file "spell_config.php" and enter your forum database username and password.

3. Find a dictionary and upload it to the "spelling" directory. A copy is provided in the zip file. PHPSpell's site has a couple of dictionaries for download: http://www.master-technology.com/dem...l/download.php

4. Run "spell_admin.php" from your browser (URL/spelling/spell_admin.php) to create the dictionary datanbase table. When done, delete this file and the dictionary file.

5. You might want to modify the css files to have the look and feel of your forum and colours.

6. The rest is template edits for each template where you'd like to have the spell checker. For example:

newreply template

Find

</head>

Add above

<script language='javascript' src='spelling/spellmessage.js'></script>

Find the submit and preview buttons:

		<input type="submit" class="button" name="sbutton" value="$vbphrase[submit_reply]" accesskey="s" tabindex="1" />
		<input type="submit" class="button" name="preview" value="$vbphrase[preview_post]" accesskey="p" tabindex="1" />

Add below:

<if condition="DOTOOLBAR!=2">
<input type="hidden" name="toolbar" value="1" />
	<input type="button" class="button" name="spellcheck" value="SpellCheck" accesskey="c" tabindex="1" onclick="openspell('1');"/>
<else />
<input type="hidden" name="toolbar" value="2" />
	<input type="button" class="button" name="spellcheck" value="SpellCheck" accesskey="c" tabindex="1" onclick="openspell('2');"/>
</if>

And repeat the same steps for other templates like newthread etc.


Optional: Other Templates that contain edit boxes are:
USERCP_SHELL just add the first change here in above the </head section. Required for pm_newpm and modifysignature.
editpost
Calendar Templates: calendar_edit
New Posting Templates: newreply, newthread
Modify User Options Templates: modifysignature (add the the first change in USERCP_SHELL)
Private Message Templates: pm_newpm (add the the first change in USERCP_SHELL)

I may have missed a few, so let me know.

7. If it doesn't work, run the file "spell_diags.php" from your browser, it will test your setup and report any problems.

Enjoy

[taffy056]

Hi,

Just managed to install this hack (thank heavens), it all works apart from 2 things I can't seem to get it to work with PMs, I have added the code in USERCP_SHELL, am I missing something here? Also, when you do the spell check on words they do not change the words in the post. Actually I am not sure if it is supposed to do that?

taffy

[taffy056]

The above only happens in wysiwyg, not in the standard editor

[attroll]

I went to msimplay's web site and tested this and was not to impressed. I typed a small message and then clicked on SPELL CHECK. I expected the document to be copied over into the spell check area. I did not realize that you were going to have to cut and past it into the spell checker. If I am going to have to do this why not just do the same thing using a word processor?

[msimplay]

Originally Posted by attroll

I went to msimplay's web site and tested this and was not to impressed. I typed a small message and then clicked on SPELL CHECK. I expected the document to be copied over into the spell check area. I did not realize that you were going to have to cut and past it into the spell checker. If I am going to have to do this why not just do the same thing using a word processor?

thats what i did to compensate for the fact that phpspell seems to show the html when searching use the standard toolbar and u will see what phpspell is like

on my site wyziwyg and standard toolbar users get two different versions of the spell checker until i can find a way for spell checking to work with wyziwyg editor correctly

although it has already been discussed in earlier posts

[attroll]

Originally Posted by msimplay

thats what i did to compensate for the fact that phpspell seems to show the html when searching use the standard toolbar and u will see what phpspell is like

on my site wyziwyg and standard toolbar users get two different versions of the spell checker until i can find a way for spell checking to work with wyziwyg editor correctly

although it has already been discussed in earlier posts

Thank you for the clarification. I would really like to install this hack. But I have a lot of users and it would confuse some users with html coding being put in the spell checker. So I will hold off until this can be fixed, if it ever does.

[babolo]

I get this error with vb3.03 and i think it has to do with this hack i installed

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.3:

Invalid SQL:
### INSERT QUERY GENERATED BY fetch_query_sql() ###
INSERT INTO vb3_forum
(title, description, forumhomeicon, link, displayorder, daysprune, parentid, newpostemail, newthreademail, styleid, password, options)
VALUES
('Sports', '', '', '', '1', '30', '-1', '', '', '0', '', '89799')
mysql error: Unknown column 'forumhomeicon' in 'field list'

mysql error number: 1054

Date: Wednesday 20th of October 2004 07:09:06 PM
Script: http://www.real-life-teens.net/admincp/forum.php
Referer: http://www.real-life-teens.net/admincp/forum.php?do=add
Username: Brandon
IP Address: 4.*****

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by babolo

I get this error with vb3.03 and i think it has to do with this hack i installed

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.3:

Invalid SQL:
### INSERT QUERY GENERATED BY fetch_query_sql() ###
INSERT INTO vb3_forum
(title, description, forumhomeicon, link, displayorder, daysprune, parentid, newpostemail, newthreademail, styleid, password, options)
VALUES
('Sports', '', '', '', '1', '30', '-1', '', '', '0', '', '89799')
mysql error: Unknown column 'forumhomeicon' in 'field list'

mysql error number: 1054

Date: Wednesday 20th of October 2004 07:09:06 PM
Script: http://www.real-life-teens.net/admincp/forum.php
Referer: http://www.real-life-teens.net/admincp/forum.php?do=add
Username: Brandon
IP Address: 4.*****

Not from this hack.

[babolo]

are u sure becuase this was the last hack i installed

[dsmcd01]

bump...

Originally Posted by dsmcd01

I was playing around this weekend, trying to get the Learn button to appear only for specific users.

It was easy enough to get the userid to the openspell function in spellmessage.js by adding $bbuserinfo[userid] to the template code, but I can't seem to get the userid from there to spelling.js where it'd do some good.

No big deal, and I understand I'm using the hack and phpSpell in a non-standard way. But, has anyone gotten this to work?

TIA,
D.

Just curious. Any suggestions?

[Lionel]

Wondering... looks like the spellchecker is stripping all the texts when sending emails out to subscribers. I kept on getting a bunch of emails no subject no message when someone was replying to a post, I removed the spellchecker and situation corrected.