Spell Checker

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I hope I got the topic right

The new version of firefox (2.0) has a automated spell checking system based on the dictionaries (freely available).

[jon]

What happened to the toggle option? I'm looking at the latest cvs build and unable to find this feature, where is it?

[elephant]

Originally Posted by Varun Shoor

I will see if we can add a toggle to switch to Aspell extension available with PHP (On most systems atleast) on Monday.

If not, Then it might not make into the .98 stable build.

Regards,

Varun Shoor

Varun,

We just installed the latest CVS, is this something we can toggle now. This would be a huge help! Thanks!!! Hope all is well.

[Varun Shoor]

Yes, It automatically tries to use the Aspell extension and if it fails to load it then it tries to load the aspell binary.

Hope that helps.

Regards,

Varun Shoor

[elephant]

Originally Posted by Varun Shoor

Yes, It automatically tries to use the Aspell extension and if it fails to load it then it tries to load the aspell binary.

<?php

$spell = pspell_new("en");

if (pspell_check($spell,"orange")){
   echo "Word spelt correctly!\n";
} else {
   echo "Bad spelling\n";
}
?>

Ok, I got the above code working at the root of the site.

But, now when I run the spellchecker in kayako, I get this in the source:

<b>Warning</b>: pspell_new() [<a href='function.pspell-new'>function.pspell-new</a>]: PSPELL couldn't open the dictionary. reason: No word lists can be found for the language &quot;en&quot;. in

If I look at the code, in spellchecker.php:

		$int = pspell_new("en");

This is the line it failing on. How is this line any different than my sample line? Is Kayako have some sort of global setting somewhere that I am missing in the mode. Why would the bahavior change?

Thanks!

[jon]

Originally Posted by elephant

If I look at the code, in spellchecker.php:

		$int = pspell_new("en");

This is the line it failing on. How is this line any different than my sample line? Is Kayako have some sort of global setting somewhere that I am missing in the mode. Why would the bahavior change?

Thanks!

I got this working in windows by changing that code (at line 109) : includes\Spellcheck\spellchecker.php

to...

			pspell_config_create("en");
			$int = pspell_new("en");

Hope this helps!

[jon]

http://bugs.kayako.net/?do=details&id=1849

[Varun Shoor]

Added to TODO, Fix should be out in CVS soon.

Thanks for posting.

Regards,

Varun Shoor

[csa2]

Hello,

Just wondering, how can we install the spell check without resorting to changing any of the php codes (etc).

I have just noticed that it hasnt been installed in our V3. Please help!

Cheers

[jon]

Originally Posted by Varun Shoor

Added to TODO, Fix should be out in CVS soon.

Thanks for posting.

Regards,

Varun Shoor

Varun,

Just installed latest stable (3.10.02), this fix was not applied. Please rectify for future releases.

[Jamie Edwards]

This bug has been fixed.

Thanks,

[dabraham1]

Originally Posted by mhunt

Resolved this now.....some info just in case anyone else is running v3 on Windows and IIS. It's quite involved, so please bear with me:

I assume here you've got a working PHP install, and v3 running!

Download Aspell (win32 version) the ‘Full Installer’ and English dictionary for Aspell, linked here for your convenience:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/w32/As...-3-3-Setup.exe
and
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/w32/As...n-0.50-2-3.exe

Install the Installer (Aspell-*-Setup.exe), and then install the dictionary (Aspell-en-*.exe).

Now, here’s the important step. Download this file: aspell-data.zip from:
http://networkessence.net/aspell-data.zip

Save this file in C:/Program Files/Aspell (or whichever directory you installed Aspell into). Rename the directory ‘C:/Program Files/Aspell/Data’ to ‘C:/Program Files/Aspell/Data.old’. Now extract the contents of the aspell-data.zip file into ‘C:/Program Files/Aspell’. This will replace the data files which are installed into Aspell. I have no idea why this is needed, but for some reason, the Windows version of php/aspell won’t support the data files which are installed by default.

Now edit php.ini and add this line: extension=php_pspell.dll, making sure the DLL is actually in your extensions directory for PHP.

Now amend your default PATH system variable for 'TMP' from the default, '%SystemRoot%\temp' to c:\temp (or whichever directory you wish). Aspell seems to not pick up the variable replacement correctly, so needs hard coding.

Do an IISRESET and hey presto....a working Spell Checker for v3 on Windows.

Mark

Can you please point me to a copy of the aspell-data.zip file. The listed link does not work.

Thanks.

[jon]

Originally Posted by dabraham1

Can you please point me to a copy of the aspell-data.zip file. The listed link does not work.

Thanks.

I'm guessing that the link is mearly a copy of the dictionary files saved as Text Files. The default dictionaries probably use UNIX line returns which windows doesn't understand. Re-saving the files with DOS line returns should fix the problem.