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**kal** · Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 6:59 pm Post subject: New feature: Spell checker

Everyone,

A spell checker is now available when entering posts. It's only available in the "Advanced" mode (not quick reply).

I've also added the 50-100 most popular tech terms that we use into the global custom dictionary. You can add more to your own custom dictionary of course.

Kal

derfla · Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 547 Location: eastern ohio

about time. My speeling suckes bad...

aspec2 · Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 549

Oh boy Kal, I just saw it. It found that I spelled whipper wrong. Oh boy, oh boy, OH BOY.

I shall confine my excitement to standing in one place and pulsating.

Walt

**kal** · Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 2:15 am Post subject:

ChrisWiggles · Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 5:07 am Post subject:

are you impliying that I canot speel?

O_salt · Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 60 Location: Bellevue, Wa

Thanks Kal.

WanMan · Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 10273

Testing, one to tree

Well, doggy, is got my first spelling mistake, but not the second of the third. Which spallchecker package is this, Kal?

**kal** · Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 1:22 pm Post subject:

It's phpSpell version 1.06p (free): http://www.master-technology.com/demos/spell/

It's a general purpose spell checker that works with php.

Thread about it over at the main phpbb forum: http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=71932

I looked at www.spellingcow.com as well (also free), but I don't like the fact that it 'calls home' every time you use it to do the spell checking. It's not a 100% standalone package like phpSpell. (Their URL also doesn't seem to work for me right now...). Mind you, phpSpell eats up about 10mb of database space per language that you install and isn't quite as polished (IMHO) as some of the pay ones.

Ironic as well, the admin interface for phpSpell has a bunch of spelling mistakes in it. Smile

Kal