vB Spell :: Spell Checker in WYSIWYG and Standard Modes

There's also a vB 3.5 version: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=92202

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: Many of you liked PungoSpell, but didn't like recompiling PHP for it. Many liked PHPSpell, but didn't like the lack of WYSIWYG support and browser compatibility. vB Spell solved both problems, I hope, by combining the best of each.

Features:
o Supports most recent versions of browsers. Tested on IE, Firefox, Mozilla/Netsacpe, Opera and Konqueror (Konqueror implies Safari, but please confirm Mac folks)
o Learn Feature uses cookies, so it won't increase the database size
o Admin panel options
o Skips quoted text and other tags (PHP, code, etc.)
o Usergroup permisisons
o Template based interface, and uses your default style.
o Link buttons (Thesarus and Lookup) with links to Merriam Webster's online thesarus and dictionary links with the suggestion for misspelled words.

Installation:
1. Download vbspell.zip and upload the files and run vbspell_install.php
2. Go to AdminCP > vBulletin Options > vB Spell and edit your usergroup permisisons.
3. For each template where you would like to add a vB Spell, do the following edits (Example: editpost, newreply, newthread, etc.)

Note: For those running PHP in cgi mode and get timeouts while installing the dictionary, you can download the file dictionary_sql_for_php_cgi.zip to import it to mysql through the mysql command line.

A. Find:

</head>

Add before:

<script src="vbspell.js"></script>

B. Find: (or anywhere in the body)

$navbar

Add after:

<form name="spell_form" id="spell_form" method="POST" target="spellWindow" action="vbspell.php">
        <input type="hidden" name="spell_formname" value="">
        <input type="hidden" name="spell_fieldname" value="">
        <input type="hidden" name="spellstring" value="">
        <input type="hidden" name="toolbar" value="">
</form>

C. Find the submit and preview buttons:

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

Add below:

<if condition="$show['wysiwyg']">
        <input type="button" class="button" value="Spell Check" onClick="spellCheck('vbform', 'WYSIWYG_HTML', '2');">
<else />
        <input type="button" class="button" value="Spell Check" onClick="spellCheck('vbform', 'message', '1');">
</if>

Other templates:

Optional: Other Templates that contain edit boxes are:
USERCP_SHELL just add the first change (A) 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: add the the first change (A) in USERCP_SHELL) and the rest (B and C) in modifysignature

Quick reply: . Put change (A) in showthread, above </head>. Then add change B to the beginning of showthread_quickreply. Then find

			<input type="submit" class="button" value="$vbphrase[go_advanced]" accesskey="x" title="(Alt + X)" name="preview" tabindex="3" id="qr_preview" onclick="this.form.clickedelm.value = this.value" />

Add after it:

<if condition="$WYSIWYG == 2">
        <input type="button" class="button" value="Spell Check" onClick="spellCheck('vbform', 'WYSIWYG_HTML', '2');">
<else />
        <input type="button" class="button" value="Spell Check" onClick="spellCheck('vbform', 'message', '1');">
</if>

History:

December 25, 2005: 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)

November 2nd. 2005: Fixed a bug with slashes in text.

Oct 17, 2005: v0.9.5 Cecks for primnary and secondary group permission. Also fixed quoted words.

July 10, 2005: v0.9.4 Added an error if accessing vB Spell directly, like from who's online page.

July 10, 2005: v0.9.3 Fixed a problem with capitalized first letter of words, so chosing a suggested alternative would not alter capitalization.

July 10, 2005: v0.9.2 Fixed a browser bug, fixed an installer issue effecting some, and fixed handling of some special characters.

July 9, 2005: v0.9.1 Learned words in cookies are no longer case sensitive. Abbreviations are ignored and not spell checked.

July 8, 2005. initial release, v0.9

Please click Install if you have installed this mod.

[damonh]

AWESOME HACK!!! Thanks!

[simple_john]

Thanks tamarian, i just installed it and it works great...

one more stupid question please... and i apologize i dont know the coding part much at all...

but say i tell the system to learn the word 'chekc' accidentally...

nect time i spell chekc it allows it... is there a way for me to edit the list of learned words??? so i can remove chekc as a valid word??

again sorry if this is too simple a question...

thanks

[tamarian]

Originally Posted by simple_john

but say i tell the system to learn the word 'chekc' accidentally...

nect time i spell chekc it allows it... is there a way for me to edit the list of learned words??? so i can remove chekc as a valid word??

The learned words are stored in a cookie. You can either clear your cookies to reset the learned words, or look for that specific cookie in your cookies directory, it's called "vbspell_words".

[simple_john]

thanks Tamarian, i installed it on a small test forum i have and had a few problems... (due to me not knowing what i'm doing) thanks for the guidance..

I just installed it on my actual forum and it went super clean.

LOL, i know why tamarian needed to develop spell check so badly.. FYI for those who have installed.. 'thesaurus' is spelled wrong on the Button that was developed...


thanks for showing me how to fix that too!!


Great HACK!! very helpful.

one more question.. im new to doing hacks.. in general, do you install all the files to the admincp folder or just the install files?

i installed just the install file to the admincp folder.. but during install it was looking for the dictionary file.. so i put that in the admincp folder too...


in general.. when doing hacks..
do you usually put the files to the root or to the admincp folder???

[tamarian]

Originally Posted by simple_john

LOL, i know why tamarian needed to develop spell check so badly.. FYI for those who have installed.. 'thesaurus' is spelled wrong on the Button that was developed...

But I spelled the rest of the buttons correctly, I think The buttons HTML code in in the vbspell template, for those who want to edit it.

one more question.. im new to doing hacks.. in general, do you install all the files to the admincp folder or just the install files?

What I do is organize the zip file contents in a way that makes it easier to know which goes where. Depending on what compression software you use, the zip file will contain a "forum" directory, files under it go to the main forum directory, and another directory called "admincp", and the content of that directory goes into the admincp.

[rprade]

Trying to determine why I am getting two Spell Check buttons.

Any ideas?

[tamarian]

Originally Posted by rprade

Trying to determine why I am getting two Spell Check buttons.

Any ideas?

In which template? Double check your template edits

[rprade]

I created replacement variables with the code as shown in your instructions. It's acting like the if-statement is not working properly and it's displaying using both submit button statements.

Hey, man -- QUICK reponse time!!!! Thanks!

[Chris@TSE]

sounds like you have it in your code twice, revert back to the old saved version and apply the modification to that one again properly????

[rprade]

Interesting behavior here --

If I put the code in a replacement variable (vbspell_check_html) and use the replacement variable, I get two buttons.

If I just paste the code as is into newreply, it works just fine.

Very interesting.