Updated spellcheck module - now what

By tayknight on 2 Mar 2006 at 01:34 UTC

Hi all. I've completly rewritten the old 4.5 spellcheck module. I'm ready to 'release' the module and wonder what I'm supposed to do now. I could create a patch, but there is almost nothing that remains from the old spellcheck module. This is also my first module for Drupal, so I'm hoping I've done everything correctly.

So what should I do now?

The module uses the GPL'ed Speller Pages from http://spellerpages.sourceforge.net and requires aspell on the server. You can try it out at http://test.willwyatt.com you can login as testuser/testuser and create a blog entry. There should be a 'Check Spelling' button below the body form element. The module only works with 4.7 and has only been tested against 4.7 CVS.

Comments

Nice job

pulsifer commented 2 March 2006 at 05:07

Nice job. I look forward to using it.

Congratulations, creating a Spell Check within Drupal

rport commented 2 March 2006 at 10:55

Well done!

This is a a simple, clean interface, while it may not suit everyone (as is has dependencies) it works well on your test.

Thanks for your contribution.

Russ

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Russ @ Firewize

This is just what I've been

JHeffner commented 8 March 2006 at 04:03

This is just what I've been waiting for. Anyway to get a hold of this from you somehow? I'm jason.heffner@gmail.com

If the existing project has

sepeck commented 8 March 2006 at 04:15

If the existing project has been abandomed you could apply to take over the project. Ask on the dev list. You would need to then apply for a cvs account.

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Code available

tayknight commented 9 March 2006 at 17:02

Code available here.

Error

v1nce commented 9 March 2006 at 17:58

I've got 4.7b4 installed and am receiving the following error when I'm adding a page and clicking on check spelling. I pulled this from my Javascript console in Firefox.

Nothing happens after I've clicked on the 'check spelling' button below the body text box.

Error: document.forms['node-form'] has no properties
Source File: .../node/add/page
Line: 11

Any ideas?

IE - works

v1nce commented 9 March 2006 at 18:02

Spell checker works fine in IE on 4.7b4. I guess I need to do something within Firefox???

Depends On User Logged In

v1nce commented 9 March 2006 at 18:48

This is somewhat confusing to me. Spellchecker works fine if I'm logged in as a regular authenticated user in both IE and Firefox.

But when I log in as the main admin user I created when Drupal was initially installed the error occurs in both Firefox and IE.

Here is IE's error description:

Line: 11
Char: 11
Error: 'document.forms.node-form.elements' is null or not an object
Code: 0
URL: .../node/add/page

Interesting

tayknight commented 9 March 2006 at 19:27

I'll take a look and see if I can reproduce. Thanks for the help.

Nice Job

JHeffner commented 10 March 2006 at 02:05

Nice Job. I had to secure the aspell application for my install, but it works great. Thanks!

I tested it with IE and it works fine as well. BTW do you have the drupal.diff file you referenced in your module for the comment module to enable comment spell checking as well?

The code and comments have moved

tayknight commented 7 April 2006 at 16:40

The code and comments about it have moved to http://www.willwyatt.com/node/116

Can this be easily modified to work with 4.6?

redsymbol commented 26 April 2006 at 18:54

Hi, thanks for this module, tayknight. I think it's an important contribution.

One of my sites is Drupal v. 4.6.5, and I'm not planning to upgrade to 4.7 anytime soon. You point out it only works with 4.7; I tried installing it anyway, and sure enough it does not seem to work. (I enabled "access comment spellchecking" in admin/access - is there anything else that would need to be done to turn it on, for editing pages and stories?)

Assuming I configured it right and it truly only works with 4.7, is there some way it could be altered to work with 4.6? I'll look at it and post a patch if I find it, but I would appreciate it if you could point me in the right direction.

Thanks again,
Aaron

Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net
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easily?

tayknight commented 27 April 2006 at 15:39

I'll see what I need to do to make this work with 4.6.6. It shouldn't be too hard.
I'll post back in this thread when I get something figured out.

Cool, thanks. -Aaron From

redsymbol commented 29 April 2006 at 17:56

Cool, thanks.
-Aaron

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