GSpellerServer

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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Installation 2.1 Requirements 2.2 Configuration 2.3 Download 3 Credits 4 Notes 5 ToDo

Introduction

A spelling service engine based on Google's spell check XML protocol.

Works great with GoogieSpell and WikiSpeller.

Installation

Requirements

• Requires PHP5 compiled '-with-pspell'.
  • Windows users may want to reference PHP5 on IIS with ASpell/pspell
• To work as a Google replacement, should be run on an SSL server.

To test on your server, point your browser to the 'test/test.php' script and verify that all is "OK".

Configuration

To enable the use of the short-url form, add the following to the directory configuration (httpd.conf or .htaccess).

  Options +MultiViews

Download

All software is available thru anonymous subversion access.

• browse source
• svn checkout https://sourcecode.extension.org/svn/projects/GSpellerServer/trunk/GSpellerServer

Credits

Thanks to Paul Welter for his disection of the Google spelling service XML protocol.

Notes

• 2006.07.18 - REL_1.2 - update test suite
• 2006.07.18 - REL_1.1 - bug-fix for utf8 characters
• 2006.06.18 - REL_1.0 - initial code release

ToDo

1. Document usage better.
2. Test scripts for deployment
3. Add interface for adding words to custom dictionary.
4. See about handling contractions in sentences.