PungoSpell Spell Checker for vB3.5 WYSIWYG and Standard mode

PungoSpell for vB 3.5 WYSIWYG and Standard mode

Intro: PungoSpell supports WYSIWYG mode disply using DHTML on the spell check popup window. It uses PHP's buitin PSPELL module. Many have this already compiled in, but if not, it's easy to add.

What this hack does This hack modifies the PungoSpell software package from PungoSpell to allow spell checking on vBulletin for both modes, WYSIWYG and standard mode.

Change Log:
v2.4 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)

v2.3 Bug fix standard mode.
v2.2 Bugfix
v2.1 Changed JS to handle vB 3.5 beta 4
v2.0 Initial release for vB 3.5 beta Features, no more config edits, uses admin panel for settings


Note: There's another hack for spell checker for vBulletin3 using PHPSpell. (I plan to port it to vB 3.5 shortly) You might want to compare both to decide which one you like best.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=65723

Credit PungoSpell Is a free software using the MIT license. By default, it will work fine in standard mode. This hack will allow it to work for both standard and WYSIWYG.

Requirements: You will need to have PSPELL compiled into your PHP setup. Many have this by default. To find out if you already have it, check your PHP info from the vBulletin Admin Panel: Import & Maintenance > View PHP Info. Search for "pspell". If it's there, you're fine. If not, you can recompile PHP with the "--with-pspell" paramater.

You also need aspell software installed on your server with a dictionary setup.

Please check with your server admin if not sure


Installation Instructions

1. Download the attached file, and unpack into your main forum directory, except for pungo_install.php which should go into your admincp directory. Make sure the file "custom.pws" is writable by apache, otherwise the "Learn" function will not work.

2. Run pungo_install.php in the admincp directory. Once you're done, edit the options in the vB options menu under the title "PungoSpell".

3. It has English setup by default. If you want it to use any other language, it's easy. Just edit the language setting from your control panel.

"en" stands for English. Change it to the code of the language you want. Like "fr" for French, for example. Make sure your system has the required dictionary. You see the dictionary config by typing "aspell config" at the command line, to see which dictionaries you have.

4. Edit each template where you'd like to have the spell checker. For example:

newreply template

A. Find

</head>

Add above

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

B. Add somewhere the followin (below $navbar for example)g:

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

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

And repeat the same steps for other templates like newthread etc.


Trouble shooting:

1. Learn doesn't work: Try this: Change the first line from custom.pws:

personal_ws-1.1 en 0

To:

personal_ws-1.1 english 0

en worked fine for me on Fedora and Gentoo, but I had to change to english on RHE.


2. Change language If you have learning enabled, affter you change the language from the admincp, you also, in the file custom.pws, the first line reads something like:

personal_ws-1.1 en 0

You will need to change en to the language you use, like fr


Please click Install if you have installed this mod.

[Qualia]

I keep getting a blank window for the Spell check. I only put it on the newreply to test, since it's a test board anyway.

I also noticed in the custom.pws file, your copy in your post says
personal_ws-1.1 en 0

the one I downloaded says personal_ws-1.1 en 2

I'm not sure what the difference is, don't think it matters, but thought I'd ask.

Any idea why I'd get a blank window? I haven't heard back from the host if we have aspell or not but we do have pspell, I did check.

Thanks.

[tamarian]

Originally Posted by Qualia

I keep getting a blank window for the Spell check. I only put it on the newreply to test, since it's a test board anyway.

I also noticed in the custom.pws file, your copy in your post says
personal_ws-1.1 en 0

the one I downloaded says personal_ws-1.1 en 2

I'm not sure what the difference is, don't think it matters, but thought I'd ask.

Any idea why I'd get a blank window? I haven't heard back from the host if we have aspell or not but we do have pspell, I did check.

Thanks.

When you tested, did you test as a user from the allowed usergroups? Make sure you have permission in the admin panel vB settings.

The number in custom.pws indicates the number of words added to the word list.

[Qualia]

Yes, I did. We only have admins, mods and dummy accounts for this test board. I did what you said and changed the user group numbers in the vB options.

I use Netscape, (hate IE), and my friend, one of the other admins, is using Mozilla, we get the same thing.

I'll double check the user group numbers though, thanks for the quick reply.

Edit in:

What a moron... I put the number of users instead of the user ID. :nervous:

[tamarian]

Note: PungoSpell does not yet work with Beta2, only beta1. An update will be posted when available.

[theArchitect]

I am guessing that if it won't work with Beta 2 then it also won't work with beta 3 as I am getting the following errors:

Warning: PSPELL couldn't open the dictionary. reason: I'm sorry I can't find any suitable word lists for the language-tag "en".  in /pungospell.php on line 46

Warning: 0 is not a PSPELL result index in /pungospell.php on line 102

Warning: 0 is not a PSPELL result index in /pungospell.php on line 105

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /pungospell.php on line 107

Warning: 0 is not a PSPELL result index in /pungospell.php on line 102

Warning: 0 is not a PSPELL result index in /pungospell.php on line 105

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /pungospell.php on line 107

[tamarian]

Originally Posted by theArchitect

I am guessing that if it won't work with Beta 2 then it also won't work with beta 3 as I am getting the following errors:

Correct. The editor code iseems to change in each of the the beta stages, I'll wait for an RC release first, to avoid these problems.

[Snake]

Will this hack work on RC2 I wonder?

[tamarian]

Originally Posted by Snake

Will this hack work on RC2 I wonder?

Yes, it should work fine. Also check vB Spell, it's easier to setup

[Snake]

I have installed it already so you're too late. And by the way, I can install any hack. I don't have any troubles while installing them. Besides, it looks like Pungo is much better than vB Spell one.

Also, is there any chance you could change this hack to a plugin?

[tamarian]

Originally Posted by Snake

Also, is there any chance you could change this hack to a plugin?

Not sure what you mean. The hack does not require any changes to vBulletin's code.