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Free Spellchecking is Here · **Released**: 04-13-2002

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

Parker Clack · #62 06-02-2002, 08:56 PM

Guys I didn't write this. This will all done by the author of the script. I just made it available to all to use. I am still trying to get the script written in PHP instead of PERL.

Parker

Lucrecia · #63 06-03-2002, 12:03 AM

Once I upload it, how do I install it?

Chris Blount · #64 06-16-2002, 08:03 PM

I would love to get this to work but I keep getting a server error. It says this:

Premature end of script headers

Any ideas?

Raz · #65 06-16-2002, 08:13 PM

Make sure you upload in ASCII mode.

Chris Blount · #66 06-17-2002, 02:25 AM

Never mind. I figured it out. Dopey me had the spell.pl file on CHMOD 655. Duh!

Chris Blount · #67 06-18-2002, 05:14 PM

One other question and I'm not sure if it was covered in this thread. Is there a way to input custom words? We have a satellite forum with a lot of "non-words" only used while talking about satellite like DirecTV and such. It would be nice if the spell check didn't keep identifying those as misspelled.

Paul · #68 06-18-2002, 07:02 PM

You can add exceptions within the .cgi file itself. Open it up in notepad and you'll see where to put things in. If memory serves me correctly, I believe it's a list of words with spaces.

Paul

dawl · #69 06-20-2002, 12:41 PM

This script worked great ...thanks :-)

Chris Blount · #70 06-20-2002, 12:52 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by LoveShack
You can add exceptions within the .cgi file itself. Open it up in notepad and you'll see where to put things in. If memory serves me correctly, I believe it's a list of words with spaces.

Paul

Thanks Paul! I found the list of words that the spell checker ignores and added to it. What's really funny is that I had to add contraction words like hadn't, couldn't, shouldn't and so on becuase the spell checker would pick up the first part of the word as misspelled.

Anyway, thanks for the help. Great hack! My users love it.

Chris Blount · #71 06-20-2002, 01:11 PM

I found one bug and I'm not sure how to fix it. When someone encloses something in quotes like this,

"quoted word"

After spell checking, the checker returns it like this:

!QUOT!quoted word!QUOT!

Anyone else having this problem?

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