New Posting Features - vB Spell :: Spell Checker in WYSIWYG and Standard Modes

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: This mod was originally developed by tamarian for vB 3.5.x. With the release of 3.6.x the installer stopped working for fresh installs and the template changes were considerably out of date, tamarian gave cynix2 permission to release a 3.6.x version with updates. I have now carried it over to 3.7.x and will support it to the best of my ability.
This version should work with 3.5.x, 3.6.x, and 3.7.x series.

Features:

• Supports most recent versions of browsers. Firefox, Mozilla/Netsacpe, Opera and Konqueror (Konqueror implies Safari, but please confirm Mac folks). Currently does NOT work in IE 7, if anybody can look through the code and know of a way to fix the mod to work in IE, then please send me a pm.
• Learn Feature uses cookies, so it won't increase the database size.
• Admin panel options.
• Spell Check button appears anywhere there is a WYSIWYG Enhanced or Standard Editor Toolbar [includes quickreply but not quickedit].
• Skips quoted text and other tags (PHP, code, etc.).
• Usergroup permisisons.
• Template based interface, and uses your default style.
• Link buttons (Thesarus and Lookup) with links to Merriam Webster's online thesarus and dictionary links with the suggestion for misspelled words.

Installation:

• Unzip main package.
• Upload the contents of the 'upload' folder to your forum home directory.
  Regular Install:
  • Unzip Dictionary.zip.
  • Upload DICTIONARY.DIC to your forum home directory.
  Alternate Install
  • Unzip Manual-SQL.zip or Split-SQL.zip.
  • Import the SQL files to your database.
• Import product-vbspell37.xml.
• Go to AdminCP > vBulletin Options > vB Spell and edit your usergroup permisisons.
• Template changes are now automatic. [need tms]

Q: What is the Alternate Install method for?
A: If you are having problems with the Regular Install (such as your dictionary import freezes at x%) then you should consider using the Alternate Install. If neither of these methods work for you then there might be an issue with your server host.

Upgrading:

• Unzip main package.
• Upload the contents of the 'upload' folder to your forum home directory.
• Import product-vbspell37.xml.

To make template editing less tedious i have made use of Andreas Template Modification System found here. If you install tms before applying this mod, all template edits will be done for you. If you do not want tms installed, then i have supplied easier to understand template editing instructions inside the mod zip file.

IMPORTANT: If you decide to use tms and have the templates be automatically installed, then you need to go into your styles and save the following templates.

editpost, newreply, newthread, album_pictureview, calendar_edit, visitormessage_editor, socialgroups_editor, USERCP_SHELL, SHOWTHREAD, postbit_quickedit, pm_newpm, picturecomment_form, and modifysignature

Just go into the templates and save it without making any changes for each skin. TMS will not edit any unmodified templates, so if any of them templates are already red, then they are already modified and you don't need to save them.

HISTORY:
1.1 - Added use of TMS to make template modification easier.
1.2 - Added tehtide's fix from here
1.3 - Made some changes in the product, and made manual template instructions a little less tedious, but there is no easy way of doing it unfortunantly. You will need to redo the template edits that go above </head>.

[One-Take]

Originally Posted by SamirDarji

Not everyone uses FF, so it's just one of those little features that are nice to have bult-in to your forum.

Not to mention, at least as I see it in FF, it's a PITA compaired to other spellcheckers I have used...

One-Take

[bada_bing]

Can someone please help me.. I have vbspell installed on my 3.8.3 site and it works great as I used the TMS to add all the template changes but the problem is that TMS is causing issue for me, When I try to modify or view any styles in Style Manage in admincp everyting looks messy as everything is not displaying correctly. If I disable TMS everything works and looks normal but VBSell links no longer show up. Can someone post the template changer for VBSPELL please so I can change them manually and uninstall TMS .....Unless there is a way to uninstall TMS and leave all the template changes intact..

[PGAmerica]

I am still having vbSpell 1.3 issues on my vb3.8.3 system. On IE, it does not popup at all and shows an error in the lower left corner of the browser. The error says"

Webpage error details
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; FunWebProducts; GTB6; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)
Timestamp: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:59:05 UTC
 
Message: 'spell_formname' is null or not an object
Line: 19
Char: 9
Code: 0
URI: http://www.yorkiekingdom.net/vbspell.js

I read on this this thread that you are having problems with it working in IE, which is a huge shame. I tried in in Firefox and get this error.

var mispstr = "
"; var misps = Array();;

and then the message:

vB Spell installation problem, please notify the webmaster.

A couple of notes:
1) I do not use TMS, it never works for me, so I am stuck using the manual template edits.
2) Your template edit instructions refer to adding

<input type="button" class="button" value="Spell Check" onClick="spellCheck('vbform', '$editorid', '2');" />

after

<input type="submit" class="button" name="preview" value="$vbphrase[preview_message]" accesskey="r" tabindex="1" />

in several templates, the problem is that in those templates, there are 2 or more entries of

]<input type="submit" class="button" name="preview" value="$vbphrase[preview_message]" accesskey="r" tabindex="1" />

Do I add the code after all of them?
3) I read somewhere in this thread that there may be a problem with this program and AME. I am running AME and cannot get rid of it. Could this be the problem? is there a workaround?

As it is now, I have to uninstall this as it does not work at all.

Ideas?

[paul41598]

Theres gotta be someone who can figure out the IE issue:

'spell_formname' is null or not an object

[accludetuner]

Yeah, I wanted to install this specifically for IE users since most other browsers have built-in spell checking. I'd install it and try to mess with it but I don't have the time right now. Perhaps in the future.

[paul41598]

FYI: I just found out that if you don't apply the:

PHP Code:

<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="">
</form> 


code to the newthread template for example, the mod works fine...for the most part. Hope this helps others...

[bada_bing]

Has anyone had issues when you enable vbspell and you have photopost installed the quick_reply field is currupted and you cant leave a reply to the members photo in photopost, If I disable the vbspell plugin everything (quick_reply) in photopost works fine.

[bada_bing]

Looks like I found the issue. Under Plugin Manager in my admincp there was something called "vB Spell Template Changes" which I dont believe is being used with this version and may of been a left over from when I upgraded my site from vb 3.5 to 3.8.x and upgraded to the latest version of vbspell, I disabled vB Spell Template Changes and everything works now including vbspell.....

[ps2wiz]

Mine worked for a day but now I receive this error:

"vB Spell installation problem, please notify the webmaster. "

Any help?!

Thanks in advance.

[RonInMaine]

Is there a version of vbspell that will work with the 4.0 suite?