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]

Got it totally working. Thanks...

fyi.. you should also add it to priv_sendprivmsg template as well for the PM's.

[Parker Clack]

diettalk:

Glad to hear that you have it working. I added it to my priv_sendprivmsg template already but forgot to add it to the list of templates to modify.

Thanks for reminding me. I will update the .zip file.

Parker

[Unknown553]

Originally posted by Parker Clack
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).

Actually, it doesn't have to. My spell.pl file is in /forum and it works fine. Just chmod'd the directory to 777 and changed the path (/forum/spell.pl).

[FWC]

Originally posted by Unknown553

Actually, it doesn't have to. My spell.pl file is in /forum and it works fine. Just chmod'd the directory to 777 and changed the path (/forum/spell.pl).

I know some servers only let you run PERL files out of the cgi-bin. Chmod 777 can also be bad news for PERL files depending on the server setup. I have the spell.pl file in the cgi-bin and the directory and file are chmodded to 755. Of course, all of this is one of the reasons I much prefer PHP to PERL.

Fortunately, this very cool hack works fine.

[Hooper]

Originally posted by Parker Clack
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

That's what I was thinking earlier.

:laugh:

[Parker Clack]

Yeah the server has to be set up to allow PERL files in directories other than a cgi-bin directory or similar. I will try changing my spell.pl to 755.

I prefer PHP over PERL myself I just wish I knew how to convert from one to the other.

Parker

[Hooper]

Ok. Perl to PHP. Who's a doin it?

Perl / Php conversion

[Parker Clack]

Hooper:

Unless someone has written a program that will convert one into the other for you I won't be doing it. I am lucky if I get have the stuff that I write to work as it is.

Parker

[Chris M]

Double Post...

Satan

[Chris M]

How accurate is the Spelling?

Satan