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

[diettalk]

Hm.. I never get a dropdown box to select the "right spelling".. of a word.

Does someone have an example please?

[Unknown553]

It's fully functional on my site, but guests can only post in the feedback forum Also, the dropdown box will onyl show up on misspelled words, so if you don't see a drop down box, then you spelled everything correctly.

http://unknown553.bojangle.net/forum...p?s=&forumid=5

[Parker Clack]

chazman:

Sorry. My ISP put the libraries on my server for me. I am not sure of what all you need to install them.

Parker

[Parker Clack]

diettalk:

Here ya go.

[diettalk]

Thanks.. I go not get those dropdown boxes... All the other windows I get fine.

I think I have an issue with aspell.

[Unknown553]

Hmm, are you sure you have the aspell or ispell libraries on your server?

[diettalk]

Yea... Got it working... the only thing is when you try to "Insert in Document"... it doesn't work.

[Unknown553]

And the path to your spell.pl file is correct? (<form name="send" action="/cgi-bin/spell.pl" method="POST" target="SpellChecker">) And make sure the directory has write access (0777).

[Hooper]

This is sweet and works super. I am very curious as to why Jelsoft or no one else has taken it upon themselves to even look at this idea.

It installs in 1 minute and checks spelling just as well as the services that were incorporated into the older vBulletin versions.

This is fantastic. Why is it that no one has done this, or thought about it till now?

Thanks Parker.

[Parker Clack]

diettalk:

Make sure your paths to the spell.pl are correct, that the path to your aspell libraries are correct and that both the cgi-bin directory and spell.pl file are chmod 777. The spell.pl file has to be in the cgi-bin directory and not in the root or the vbulletin directory. (I am sure you have already done this but just to double check).

Hooper:

The spell.pl file has been available for some time that utilizes the aspell libraries with PHP. I just got the javascript code to work or I would have had this up a couple of months ago.

Hopefully someone will write the spell.pl file in PHP and jelsoft will incorporate it in the next version of vBulletin.

Parker