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. U, 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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Spell checker in PHP
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
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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.
U, 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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Re: [PHP] Spell checker in PHP
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. U, 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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Spell checker in PHP
Haven't heard of anyone doing this, and it's got to be slow but you could consider creating a word document, invoking word, and saving/retrieving the results. I would start with http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.com.php this should show you how to invoke word from your php script since you are on windows. good luck, Warren Vail -Original Message- From: Robin Kopetzky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 11:58 AM To: PHP General Subject: [PHP] Spell checker in PHP 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. Robin 'Sparky' Kopetzky Black Mesa Computers/Internet Service Grants, NM 87020 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Spell checker in PHP
I used system call to a dos spell checker program from here http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/fmg-members/geoff/ispell.html#ftp-sites using the places2k.txt file from the US census as the dictionary http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/places2k.html -Dave At 02:57 PM 1/9/2004, 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. Robin 'Sparky' Kopetzky Black Mesa Computers/Internet Service Grants, NM 87020 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php David G. O'Brien Web Services Coordinator / Systems Administrator NACCRRA The Nation's Network of Child Care Resource Referral 1319 F Street NW, Suite 500 Washington, DC 20004 (202) 393-5501 ext. 113 (202) 393-1109 fax
