mSpell: The Spell Checker add-on discussions

adventurous
We are doing only paid support on such kind of topics. See rates.

Paul I did not realise you were charging for support for helping new users get mspell to work, I can understand why you would charge for helping users configure aspell/pspell but as I have installed successfully, I do not need help on that. I have followed the manual instructions I believe there must be a problem somewhere, if only I knew where to look!!

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I am pretesting my forum on a localhost, on windows XP.

adventurous
Ok, as you know I'm not the author of this addon, so this was just a standard answer :-)

I have just installed this addon on Windows XP, too (for those who don't know - follow the very good instructions described in Enabling pspell for PHP on Win32 article), and probably I've found the reason, why it could not work.

Try to edit mspell_f/mSpell.php and find this line:

if(!isset($_POST['spellLang']) || !in_array($_POST['spellLang'],$acceptLang)) noJobs();

paste right after this line:

else $spellLang=$_POST['spellLang'];

and save the file. You get nothing again? If everything is ok, we'll fix it in the addon.

For me, it works that way!

Paul

Well done, I would never have spotted that, appears to be working as it should, thanks.

adventurous
yes, seems like there was an issue with register_globals, i forgot i had them set to ON on my test server. Should be fixed now in the official release!

if someone could provide a link to test it or take a look at it that would be nice :)

tom322, I have mSpell running on my forums. There is NO need to register to test the spell checker - just go to any existing thread, enter some text in the reply box and then click on the 'Check spelling' button.
Cheers,
mb

marsbar
Thanks! I will have the spell check installed soon - just wanted to see it to give my feedback (i'll post my suggestions if I find any here:).

Ok, I noticed 2 errors - the javascript error (when I want to select a word from the menu by clicking on the word) + script error (at least on my IE) as attached in the image:

Which version of MSIE are you using, tom322? I ask because I did not get the 'something is causing IE to run slowly' error. Using MSIE 6, I encountered only the following error when selecting a word from the dictionary:

Line: 245
Char: 1
Error: Object doesn't support this property or method
Code: 0
URL: http://.../forums/mSpell.php

Using Firefox 1.5.0.3, I encounterd the following error when selecting a word from the dictionary:

Error: parent.upd is not a function
Source File: http://.../forums/mSpell.php
Line: 1

Despite the errors, the spell checker seems to still work.

-mb

I'm using IE 6, Windows XP Pro SP2.

I just tried to "play" with it -- include a text with many errors and click a few times on "Ignore" or "Ignore All" or "accept all" buttons and the error appears...

The spell check seems to be working good - it just seems it's not 100% idiot-proof ;).

tom322
hmm.. yes.. i'll check what's wrong and post an update in our downloads section today!

No problem - I think I'm pretty good at testing and breaking things ;)

this issue should be fixed now. everybody who started using the addon should update their mSpell.php file in the mspell_f folder taking the new one from the mSpell package archive in our downloads section. Here's the direct link to the addon once again - http://www.minibb.com/download.php?file=addon_mspell

Woohoo! No more errors! Many thanks to Sergei! :-D
- mb