I've continued working at the problem of gathering and parsing an Aspell response from the form at aspell.net/suggest/ via HTPP, but I'm still having a difficult time figuring out if my issue is with Aspell, PHP, HTTP, shell syntax, or some combination of the above.
Here's my understanding of the situation:
Chris Snyder's PHP script calls Aspell as a shell exec to check a whole block of text:
http://chxo.com/scripts/spellcheck.php?showsource=1#source
( BTW, the Pages plugin based on Chris Snyder's script, Spell Check 1.0, can be found here: http://www.neatnik.net/pages/Download.html )
His script assumes Aspell is installed locally. The Pages implementation will make that its first assumption, but rather than return an error if Aspell isn't installed locally, as currently happens, I want it to attempt to connect to aspell.net/suggest/ via HTTP. I see a few possibilities:
curl ( http://curl.haxx.se/ - though curl isn't a PHP requirement, so this may not be an ideal option )
Snoopy ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoopy/ - though Snoopy may be overkill, given what appears to be a relatively simple request )
HTTPClient by Simon Willison ( http://scripts.incutio.com/httpclient/ - though even HTTPClient may be more robust than is needed )
Also, all of these are screen scraping programs and so I suspect they may make less efficient use of resources than some other option. But, as I've said and probably made terribly clear, I'm more than a bit out of my depth. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Brett Bonfield
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