Module: Speller Pages

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Spellchecking based on aspell and Speller Pages. This module will add a "Check spelling" button to the editor, which users can use to have their message spell checked.

More information on Speller Pages

This module requires Phorum 5.1.5-beta or later to work correctly.

Changelog:
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2011-01-05 v1.0.6

    - Made the availability of the subject line for checking the spelling
      optional. This way, template authors can choose to leave out the
      subject in their template. (This is something that I use myself to
      only allow editing the thread starter subject and to make the rest
      of the messages automatically use "Re: <original subject>".)

    - Improved the module template loading code and prepared it for the
      compatible language support that will be available for Phorum 5.3.

    - The HTML code for the "Check spelling" button is now generated
      from a template file.

2009-01-27 v1.0.5

    - Made the module use the javascript hook in 5.2 and using templates
      for that cause

2007-01-10 v1.0.4

    - Made the module compatible with both Phorum 5.1 and 5.2 (the current
      development tree).

    - Made the module work correctly inside an embedded or portable
      environment.

2006-05-18 v1.0.3

    - Minor fix for PHP installations where short tags (<? .. ?> instead
      of <?php .. ?>) are not allowed. The language files uses the¶
      short tags format (credits to Thomas for finding this).

2006-01-18 v1.0.2

    - Made a crude localization system. Speller Pages does not support
      localization and it's pure html/javascript on the client side.
      So I can't use code to implement languages. Therefore, localization
      is done by copying and translating the Speller Pages distribution.
      See README for more information.

    - Included a Dutch translation of the spellchecker.

2006-01-17 v1.0.1

    - Upgraded spellerpages to version 0.5.1

2006-01-11 v1.0.0

    - Initial release

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/05/2011 01:14PM by Maurice Makaay.

Folks,

I'm getting some complaints about "site slowness" from one of my forum admins, and after running some Firefox/Firebug tests on the forum section of my site:

http://tightlineskayaking.com/forum/

And I'm noticing this file:

spellChecker.js.php

getting downloaded with each page, and taking anywhere from 250 to 800 ms each time.

I think this comes with the spell-checker module (Speller Pages (version 1.0.4).

I have several questions, but no answers yet:
1) Why does this file not cache in the browser? Can someone using this module verify if it should be caching?
2) Why does this file get included on every page, and not just pages where it might be used (like posting/editing)?

At this point, I'm just looking for feedback from anyone who might have some experience with this.

Thanks!
Sean P

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Sean Phelan
Sites By Sequoia - Web Marketing ... The Experts at Building Your Success Online

Have you tried using the latest version of the Speller Pages module? It incorporates the javascript code in the main javascript code for Phorum, so it is no longer a separate download.

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
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Maurice,

I have v1.0.4 running, and it looks like that is already the newest version.

I also notice that running firebug against :

www.phorum.org/phorum5

Doesn't seem to show that spellChecker.js.php being used.

That doesn't give me any answers, but there's obviously something different about my site than the one running at Phorum.

Any suggestions for what else I should look at?

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Sean Phelan
Sites By Sequoia - Web Marketing ... The Experts at Building Your Success Online

Please try if version 1.0.5 changes things for you.

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
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Maurice,

Thanks for the 1.0.5 update - integrating that javascript certainly speeds things up a bit.

Phorum rocks!

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Sean Phelan
Sites By Sequoia - Web Marketing ... The Experts at Building Your Success Online

Hello..... I've just installed this module and I'm getting the following error after clicking the "Check spelling" button-

"System error: Could not open file '/tmp/aspell_data_bWvA5u' for writing". Any ideas on what may be causing the issue?

Thanks for any reply in advance

Sounds like the directory /tmp is not writable for the webserver. Possibly, that directory is closed down by your hosting provider.

The location of the /tmp directory is hard-coded in the speller library. You could try:

• chmod 777 on your cache directory that is inside the Phorum dir, so the webserver can write in it.
• hack the file mods/spellerpages/spellerpages/speller/server-scripts/spellchecker.php by changing $tempfiledir = "/tmp"; at the start of it to $tempfiledir = "./cache"; (mind the dot in front of /cache).

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
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Maurice,

Thanks for the reply. I had problems setting up the caching and ultimately had to disable it when I installed Phorum earlier this week. Both the /tmp and the ./chache directories were tried, but neither would pass the sanity check. I'm confident that both are set to 777. I'm on a unmannaged dedicated server that I have full control over, so if there's anything else you think I can do.

Now that I've re-read your reply, is this a tmp folder in the root area of the server and not within the directory I installed Phorum? LOL! I hope it'll be as easy as setting the permissions on a different folder.

Please let me know, and I'll see what I can do to fix this from work this morning.

Thanks again.

/tmp is the root level temporary folder yes. The ./cache directory should really work. If not, then something strange is going on. Maybe some overly protective setting in the php.ini (like safe_mode) is giving you problems here. Hard to tell from symptoms alone.

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
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