Free Spellchecking is Here

There has been a PERL script out for some time that allows you to make use of aspell libraries that you can have installed on your server with PHP.

I have also included a text file that has the javascript that you insert into your editpost, newthread and newreply templates to add spell checking to your forums. The edited text is then inserted into the original document when submitted.

You need to have a cgi-bin, or similar directory, set up on your server and the aspell or ispell libraries for PHP on your server. (Do a look up for aspell or ispell on google, etc. on these libraries if you don't know about them.)

If someone wants to look over the enclosed PERL script and write it in PHP that would be great and make it to were you didn't have to have PERL on your server.

Enjoy!

Parker

[Marco van Herwaarden]

vB2 and vB3 are completly different. Not much chance it will work, and updating would probably be a lot of work.

[Bubble #5]

OK thanks

[ice9]

We've got it working on vb3. Since the spellchecking function is largely external, integrating it shouldn't be too tough for different vb versions.

The posting screen is setup a little bit differently in vb3, so you have to watch out for complications that arise from nesting forms. You can see how it was done by checking out the site in my profile.

[Bubble #5]

Just a heads up... there is a security issue with this. The script does not check to see if it is being called from the domain name it runs on, so anyone can easily link directly to your spell check script.

[ice9]

Follow the original instructions, just watch out for the proper form nesting. You can also add spellchecking to your PM screens. Pick up the latest version of spell.pl from http://dontpokebadgers.com/spellchecker/ . The script has a tendency to be a little trouble-prone -- some javascript and perl knowledge is helpful.

[Bubble #5]

Could someone PLEASE help us with the button size?

The spell check button is much bigger then any of the other buttons. Could someone PLEASE show us how to fix this? You can see a picture of it below, and our button code is also below. Thank you.

 <input type="button" name="SpellCheck" value="Spell Check" onclick="sendtext()" class="bginput" tabindex="5" accesskey="c">

[ice9]

My first thought is that it is a stylesheet setting. Can you post a url?