New spell checker is now available!

[Chris Blount]

After some pretty interesting lessons in Perl programming today, I finally managed to install a spell checker. It should be available in all posting modes including private messaging and quick replies. Since we are still in a beta testing mode, please let me know if you have any problems. Thanks!

[Scott Greczkowski]

All right! YIPPIE!

Good Job Chris!!!!!!

It works well too!

[James_F]

Great news since I can't spel.

[Steve Mehs]

Wow and its fast loading too, great job Chris!!!

[Nick]

WOW! :eek:

Now I'll no longer have to copy/paste my compositions into the other guy's spel cheker. :lol:

Thanks.

Nickster :smoking:

[Kevin]

Thnaks Chris!:D

[Chris Freeland]

Yea!!! I am also a bad speller, no more cut and past.

[Scott Greczkowski]

It took Chris a good day to get the Spell Checker working as it was not written for VBBS or PHP.

This spell check works great! And the best part is it does not cost us $150 for every 100,000 searches (or every 6 months whichever comes first)

It's just another great feature here on DBStalk.COM

[Chris Blount]

Originally posted by Scott Greczkowski
And the best part is it does not cost us $150 for every 100,000 searches (or every 6 months whichever comes first)
That's one of the great things about this spell check. It all runs completely from our own server. No extra costs required.

So far it seems to be working well. Thanks everyone for your support.

[EricG]

It doesn't know:


DirecTV
Echostar
LNB
Multiswitch
TiVo

[James_F]

I'm having trouble with words like:

doesn't
aren't

it sees them as doesn and aren.... Try it for yourself..... :confused:

[Rage]

I like it.

[Scott Greczkowski]

Yeah James I have seen that as well, The spell check works off a unix backdoor, I don't know if we can edit the word file or not.

The thing to remember is you know its spelled correctly, so make no corrections to that word. :)

[Chris Blount]

I just went into the Perl code and found the "ignore words" list. I've already input a few words like DirecTv and such. Please list any words that you find that should be on the ignore list here. Thanks!

[Richard King]

New spell
Is New Spell anything like new math?

[Nick]

"Please list any words that you find that should be on the ignore list here."

"Rage" :lol: :lol: :lol:


Nickster :smoking:

[Chris Blount]

OK, here are the words that the spell check should ignore as being misspelled:

http, ftp, nntp, smtp, nfs, html, xml, mailto, bsd, linux, gnu, gpl, openwebmail, HTF, AVS, DVD, DIVX, VHS, LD, SVS, directv, echostar, lnb, multiswitch, tivo, dishplayer, doesn, didn, aren, wouldn, couldn, don, hadn, wasn, isn, shouldn, ain, haven, url, osama, DBS, DBSTalk, DBSForums

Any others you can think of?

[James_F]

Chris, that all looks like jibberish :)

[Steve Mehs]

Heres a few more Chris...

- TiVo, DirecTiVo, EKB, SVHS, toslink, firewire, Primestar

[Chris Blount]

Excellent additions Steve. Thanks (Tivo is already on the list)

[Kevin]

Here's one:

hasn

[Mark Lamutt]

Here are a few more:

E*, D*, AVSForums, HDTV, HD, SD, 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, SW21, SW42, SW44, SW64, dishpro

[Nick]

Cospiraologist :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Rage]

Everything that is in quotes after spell-check comes out like this:

!QUOT!test!QUOT!

This is a PITA.

[Chris Blount]

Originally posted by Rage
Everything that is in quotes after spell-check comes out like this:

!QUOT!test!QUOT!

This is a PITA.


That is definitely a bug. Thanks for pointing it out.

[Rage]

Can't you fix it?

[Scott Greczkowski]

What is it?

[Chris Blount]

Rage,

I've updated the script that runs the spellcheck so the quote bug is fixed. However, I had to remove some of the words that are ignored by the spellchecker like "Dishplayer" and E* and so on. Whenever I added those words in, the quote bug came back which is why it has taken some time to get this bug fixed.

Anyway, you are good to go for now.

[James_F]

Thanks Chris. You the man!

[Rage]

Thanks!

[BobaBird]

Very slick. Add "LNBF" to the list.

[Chris Blount]

Okay, I've been working on the spell checker. The quote bug is definitely fixed and I've added back most of the "ignore words" listed in this thread. If you see any other words that should be ignored by the spell check, please let me know. I've also been working on some cosmetic changes to the spell check window but still have more work to do on that.

Thanks for the help guys!