There are a lot of words in the spelling checking in Microsoft products
that isn't part of what you'd consider a standard 'dictionary', like
city names and such.
I think for spell checking, using the internal spell check in Word would
be best, but if you ever decided to work on Word<->PHP integration, look
into COM.
I havn't played around with it a lot, but someone at my work doubted I
could use PHP to control Microsoft MapPoint. I got just far enough to
prove them wrong before getting busy.
$mappoint = new COM("mappoint.application") or die("Unable to
instanciate mappoint");
print "Loaded mappoint, version {$mappoint->Version}\n";
$map = new COM("mappoint.map") or die ("Unable to instanciate map");
$map = $mappoint->NewMap or die ("Unable to NewMap");
$map->Name = "Test" or die ("Unable to Name");;
$mappoint->Visible = 1;
You should be able to do similar things with almost all the latest
Microsoft applications, even if they don't have an obvious VBA editor
built in like Access and Excel do.
-TG
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex King [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 1:52 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Spell checker in PHP
>
>
> Justin,
>
> I don't know what version of Word you have, but XP seems to
> do fine with
> correcting city names.
>
> Alex
>
> "Justin French" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > On Saturday, January 10, 2004, at 06:57 AM, Robin Kopetzky wrote:
> >
> > > Good afternoon!
> > >
> > > I know aspell and pspell are available but pspell won't work in my
> > > Windows
> > > environment. Does anyone know how to tie into Word's spell checker
> > > using php
> > > or another spell check option? What I need is a way to
> check spelling
> > > on
> > > city/state names and select the most appropriate if the
> user mangles
> > > the
> > > words.
> >
> > Ummmm, does is Word actually capable of City/State names?
> To the best
> > of my knowledge (I don't use Word), Word checks against a dictionary
> > (US/UK/AU English, etc)... I wouldn't think these dictionaries would
> > extend as far as all City & State names applicable for that
> dictionary.
> > That's insane.
> >
> > Although technically, you *could* add them all to Word's dictionary.
> >
> > However, my point is, Spell-checking of City & State names isn't
> > common, because it's too hard for the dictionaries to keep
> up with the
> > list.
> >
> > So, if Word can't offer this feature, why would your web application
> > need it?
> >
> >
> > Also, given the global nature of the web, you'd have a LOT of data
> > entry to do :)
> >
> >
> > Justin French
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