Re: Spellcheck package

Yep, does sound good. There's already an extension for this, pspell, but if PEAR could provide a wrapper interface that'd be the bomb. Joe, that could be done simply with addFilter or whatever, it wouldn't require any design specifics on the spelling package. -- Aidan "Joe Stump" <joe@joestump.net> wrote in message news:B5A54D6D-1D80-11D9-9CCF-000A95DC38D8@joestump.net... > +1 here too. This would be even cooler if it could be attached to > Quick_Form text inputs :) > > --Joe > > -- > Joseph C. Stump > joe@joestump.net > http://www.joestump.net > > > On Oct 12, 2004, at 5:04 PM, Justin Patrin wrote: > >> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 19:28:51 -0400, Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma >> <atrus@atrus.org> wrote: >>> I've been working on wrapping spellchecking functions in objects. The >>> obvious advantage is not having to remember calls to *_free functions. >>> >>> I'm also planning to add functions for getting suggestions for whole >>> strings (space-delimited words). It would return an associative array >>> of suggestions with the misspelled words as keys and arrays of >>> suggestions as values. Additionally, I think a function for >>> 'highlighting' misspelled words by inserting stings before and after >>> each misspelled word (i.e. '<b>' before and '</b>' >>> after). Suggestions >>> for other commonly useful functions are welcome. >>> >>> I'm currently basing the design on libenchant's interface. For >>> convenience, it'll have a pspell (actually aspell) backend as a >>> default, which can be switched for enchant, if it's available. >>> >>> Does this seem like a good addition to PEAR? >>> >>> Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma >>> >> >> Sounds useful to me. >> >> -- >> paperCrane --Justin Patrin-- >> >> -- >> PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >>