Kier
Fri 14th Sep '01, 4:52am
When vBulletin 2 was in beta, it included a spell-checking facility for posts, using spellchecker.net as the spelling engine. However, during the development of the product, we were informed that spellchecker.net was poised to drop support for the free spell-checking facility at any time, so we disabled its functionality in vBulletin for the final product release.
However, if you would like to add the system back into your board, it's not particularly difficult to do so.
The following text by wluke details the steps necessary to reenable the spell check system. If you look at the default templates, you will find that much of the alterations to the templates that are done below are already in the templates, but are commented-out using HTML <!-- xyz --> tags.
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I haven't tested this but this is how Spellchecker.net was installed before.
1. Download all the spellchecker.net files and upload them to a directory called spellcheck under your forum directory.
2. Edit the spch.js file so that it looks for a form with the name of "vbform".
3. Edit the editpost, newthread, newreply, sendprivmsg, and calendar_enterevent to include the following.
In the Head section add:
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="$bburl/spellcheck/spch.js"></script>With the submit buttons add:
<input type="button" class="bginput" value="Spell Check" onclick="var f=document.forms['vbform']; doSpell( '$spellchecklang', f.message, '$bburl/spellcheck/sproxy.php', true);">Make sure the form has a name attribute of "vbform" and the textarea input has a name of "message" but these should be set.
Unless Spellchecker.net has drastically altered their files in the last 2 months this should work. Sorry about the delay but I got sidetracked.
However, if you would like to add the system back into your board, it's not particularly difficult to do so.
The following text by wluke details the steps necessary to reenable the spell check system. If you look at the default templates, you will find that much of the alterations to the templates that are done below are already in the templates, but are commented-out using HTML <!-- xyz --> tags.
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I haven't tested this but this is how Spellchecker.net was installed before.
1. Download all the spellchecker.net files and upload them to a directory called spellcheck under your forum directory.
2. Edit the spch.js file so that it looks for a form with the name of "vbform".
3. Edit the editpost, newthread, newreply, sendprivmsg, and calendar_enterevent to include the following.
In the Head section add:
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="$bburl/spellcheck/spch.js"></script>With the submit buttons add:
<input type="button" class="bginput" value="Spell Check" onclick="var f=document.forms['vbform']; doSpell( '$spellchecklang', f.message, '$bburl/spellcheck/sproxy.php', true);">Make sure the form has a name attribute of "vbform" and the textarea input has a name of "message" but these should be set.
Unless Spellchecker.net has drastically altered their files in the last 2 months this should work. Sorry about the delay but I got sidetracked.