Enabling pspell in PHP on Mac OS X 10.6
| From: | Torrey Jones | Date: | Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:00:29 +0000 |
| Subject: | Enabling pspell in PHP on Mac OS X 10.6 | ||
| Groups: | php.install | ||
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Hello,
I've been attempting to get the pspell functions in PHP to work for a while now with no
success. I was directed by http://php.net/manual/en/function.pspell-new.php
to "check out inline manual pspell website:» http://aspell.net/." This led me to conclude that I must
install aspell in order to get the PHP pspell functions to work, so that's what I did. Before
proceeding, I shut down MAMP (Mac, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) to avoid any conflicts during the install
process.
First, I installed aspell-0.60.6.1 as well as aspell6-en-7.1-0, doing the "./configure"
and "make" and "sudo make install" steps for each. I'm able to confirm
from the terminal command line that aspell is actually working ("aspell help" yields a
nice long list of command syntax, options, and available dictionaries).
Next, I downloaded the PHP source code for php-5.3.6 (which is what my version of MAMP came with,
and I didn't want to upset the apple cart by trying to change versions) then recompiled it
using the following command:
"./configure --prefix=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/bin
--exec-prefix=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/bin
--sysconfdir=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/conf
--with-config-file-path=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/conf --with-pspell"
(NOTE: I was not able to supply the --with-pspell option with a directory because I couldn't
figure out which directory it wanted. I tried the directory returned by the command "which
aspell" so it was "--with-pspell=/opt/local/bin/aspell" for me, but that caused this
error "configure: error: Cannot find pspell". So I simply left off the directory and it
appeared to work.)
make
sudo make install
After this, I restarted MAMP and it seemed to me that I should be able to use pspell_new() and then
all the other pspell functions in PHP, but they're still not working. By checking my PHP log
file, I see this error: "PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function pspell_new() in
/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/test.php on line 23"
What am I missing here? How come PHP isn't recognizing my aspell installation and using it for
the pspell functions?
Thanks in advance,
Torrey