PHP Spell Checker intergration into vBulletin

Not too sure if this is where its meant to go but if it should be moved please move it.

I have been trying to find a simple spell checker to work on my forums for a while -
Eventually i found this one http://www.master-technology.com/phpbb/ which was working with phpbb.
As i have no idea how to code anything - at all!!! I asked one of their support teams to help and they gave me the answers.
So I can't take any of the credit for it, and thank them for helping me out.
At present it doesn't support vbulletin but since talkin to them they are going to be doing so in the near future.

files to upload: 17
files to edit: 1
templates to edit: 1 (possibly 2)

Instructions:
See the attached text file

[Intex]

Iggy123 - I'd tried out the version on your site to see what the spell checking was like. I kept words pretty simple, but it didn't pick up on quite a lot of them.

Obviously that's out of your control. Nice work nevertheless.

[Intex]

Iggy123 - I've integrated the style into my forum, but I can't find where the size of the popup browser is controlled. I've checked phpspell.html and the spelling.js files but can't see it.

Any ideas?

[iggy123]

Today at 11:24 AM Intex said this in Post #31
Iggy123 - I'd tried out the version on your site to see what the spell checking was like. I kept words pretty simple, but it didn't pick up on quite a lot of them.

Obviously that's out of your control. Nice work nevertheless.

It all depends on the dictonary file and the settings within the spell_config.php. I have only set it pretty low to test etc but will be getting a new dictonary etc in the next few days and hopefully it should improve

[iggy123]

Today at 02:19 PM Intex said this in Post #32
Iggy123 - I've integrated the style into my forum, but I can't find where the size of the popup browser is controlled. I've checked phpspell.html and the spelling.js files but can't see it.

Any ideas?

In the spellmessage.js

find (approx line 19)

     var LinkToField = "";

           function openspell()

        {

          height = 391;

          width = 555;

          if (ie4) LinkToField = self.vbform.message;

and alter that.

[Intex]

OK, cool - sounds good. It picks up the spelling errors just doesn't make a lot of good suggestions .

Thx. for the height / width info. I'll try that out now .

[Intex]

Yep that's it - I'm sure I tried those but obviously I didn't save the file or something after edit. Thx. for the help - appreciated .

[high]* Intex clicks install.[/high]

[Intex]

Pretty obvious this one, but for anybody else that has FireFly's Quick Reply feature, then just perform the following:

In the 'showthread_replybox' template find the following code:

<input type="reset" class="bginput" name="reset" value="Reset Form" accesskey="r" tabindex="3">

Under that add the following:

<script language='javascript' src='spelling/spellmessage.js'></script>
<input type="button" class="" value="Spell Check" onclick="openspell();">

[Intex]

Once again, simple - but others might want to include this too. If your users, edit their post they don't have a way to check the spelling again. Follow the instructions below to include the spell check button when editing posts:

In the 'editpost' template find the following code:

<input type="reset" class="bginput" value="Reset Message" tabindex="4">

Under that add the following:

<script language='javascript' src='spelling/spellmessage.js'></script>
<input type="button" class="" value="Spell Check" onclick="openspell();">

[Oldfart]

Today at 02:32 PM Intex said this in Post #35
OK, cool - sounds good. It picks up the spelling errors just doesn't make a lot of good suggestions .

Thx. for the height / width info. I'll try that out now .

Is there a way to add suggestions to the list? I've installed this nice hack with no problem but the "suggest" list is very weak on suggestions for a miss spelled word. It would be nice if it could be fixed to suggest more words.

[iggy123]

within the spell_config.php there is an option to increase the number of words suggested - however it slows the search down