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  • Jared Press
    New Member
    • Jul 2001
    • 24

    Spell checker

    My spell checker does not appear to be present though I am pretty sure I have it set up? Any ideas?
  • Jake Bunce
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2000
    • 46598
    • 3.6.x

    #2
    i think the spell checker was taken out in the final release of vB 2

    ...i think.

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    • JamesUS
      Senior Member
      • Aug 2000
      • 4622

      #3
      Yep it was, because Spellchecker.net discontinued their free service.

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      • Pilot
        Senior Member
        • Apr 2000
        • 380

        #4
        But they haven't yet.

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        • tubedogg
          Senior Member
          • Feb 2001
          • 13602

          #5

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          • Jared Press
            New Member
            • Jul 2001
            • 24

            #6
            Thanks guys.

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            • Christine Baker
              New Member
              • May 2001
              • 13

              #7
              I never cared for spellchecker.net and in Discus I just uploaded a dictionary - it's much faster and better spell checking as I added my custom.txt with all the industry specific lingo.

              Is this difficult to implement? Planned for the NEAR future?

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              • Jared Press
                New Member
                • Jul 2001
                • 24

                #8
                Christine:

                Am I to understand that can uplaod a dictionary and use it as a spell checker. Can you give me an example of how this is done.?

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                • Christine Baker
                  New Member
                  • May 2001
                  • 13

                  #9
                  That was in "Discus", another forum software that I recently quit due to lots of problems. I just installed vB.

                  I don't know a thing about coding other than a little html, but the spell checking was one feature in Discus that worked really well.

                  To me it's quite important to have spell checking and a custom dictionary, it saves me and my readers a lot of time.

                  It also greatly enhances the search results when words are spelled correctly, my forum is primarily a resource, not chat.

                  So, any "official" word on the status of spell checking will be greatly appreciated.

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                  • BabyU
                    Member
                    • Oct 2000
                    • 71
                    • 3.0.7

                    #10
                    Does this mean we can get rid of the table named "words"? Or is that for something else? Mine has over 53,000 in it and if it's not being used, might as well get rid of it!

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                    • Wayne Luke
                      vBulletin Technical Support Lead
                      • Aug 2000
                      • 73976

                      #11
                      No you cannot get rid of the word table.. it is the basis of the search engine built into vBulletin. Without it, you will not be able to search at all.

                      Jelsoft and several third party companies are developing spellchecking modules. You can also use spellchecker.net's paid service still.
                      Translations provided by Google.

                      Wayne Luke
                      The Rabid Badger - a vBulletin Cloud demonstration site.
                      vBulletin 5 API

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                      • Jared Press
                        New Member
                        • Jul 2001
                        • 24

                        #12
                        Thanks for the info guys...will stop by spellchecker and see what they charge for the service

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                        • BabyU
                          Member
                          • Oct 2000
                          • 71
                          • 3.0.7

                          #13
                          Thanks for clearing that up!

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