[geeklog-devel] Spellchecking

[Tony Bibbs]

Frankly I'm confused by it all.  I actually needed aspell and pspell and 
the PHP manual says aspell is deprecated and to use the pspell 
libraries.  I guess instead of just getting it to work I should have dug 
into a bit more to understand the relationship and history but I 
didn't.  Obviously this would be an optional thing and if you don't want 
to hassle with it I think I could probably integrate it into the forum 
myself if you want.  Again, I think we are talking a matter of minutes 
not days.

--Tony

Blaine Lang wrote:


>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.

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

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>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

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>>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.

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>>FYI, this spell checker requires apsell/pspell be installed and PHP

>>compiled with the --with-pspell option.

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>>Input (and testing) is encouraged.

>>

>>--Tony

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