[geeklog-devel] Spellchecking

[Blaine Lang]

I will give it a try Tony, I expect the biggest challenge is getting the
libraries installed.
I see there is a aspell Win32 compiled version so that will help me and many
others.

I see there are quite a few pspell functions in PHP as well.

Relationship between aspell and pspell, there appears to have been two
separate projects at one time but does not look like they are active. The
GNU Aspell (not sure if the team is different) appear to be the new active
project. Then there is talk about the GNU aspell replacing ispell.

I only see aspell libraries and it appears to be the main spelling project
now - is that what you understand as well?

Blaine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Bibbs" <tony at tonybibbs.com>
To: "Geeklog Development" <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 6:36 PM
Subject: [geeklog-devel] Spellchecking


> I have created a very simple PHP class that integrates spell checking
> into a PHP application.  I have attached the tarball to this message.
> After Dirk's bugfix release this weekend I plan on implementing the
> spell checking as an option in the 1.3.x.  This will requiring editing
> of some or all of GL's editors. I will probably start simple by adding
> it to the story and comment editors as they already support preview
> functionality making integration easy.  I'm open to suggestions on which
> of the other editors should have spellchecking capabilities.  Any forms
> which do not support the notion of previewing are going to take more
> work and we need to balance the power of this with the question of 'is
> it worth it'.
>
> Blaine, as a personal suggestion, I'd love to see spell checking support
> added to the forum.  The attached tarball has a test page in it that
> would show you basically how it works and I think you will quickly see
> how easy it really will be to integrate into the forum since you already
> support the preview concept.  This spellchecker class will check the
> spelling on a bit of text and return that text back with all mispelled
> words highlighted.  You can customize how the highlight works through
> class methods but it defaults by using a span with a yellow background.
> It will also insert suggested corrections into the title attribute of
> the span tag so if you hover your mouse over the highlighted word you
> will see them.
>
> FYI, this spell checker requires apsell/pspell be installed and PHP
> compiled with the --with-pspell option.
>
> Input (and testing) is encouraged.
>
> --Tony
>
>
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