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ecoToken
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May 30, 2009
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Adding Personal Dictionary to FCKeditor and Aspell

  • May 30, 2009
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Has anyone successfully added a Personal Dictionary to Aspell and the FCKeditor.

I have a customer with a lot of Jargon and Customer names which bogs down the Spell Check process.

Accordig to the ASpell.net website it should be possible using the "extra-dicts" option.

ie: -H --add-extra-dicts=aspell.en_US.pws

From what I can tell it should be added to the following file at line 16

C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\CFIDE\scripts\ajax\FCKeditor\editor\dialog\fck_spellerpages\spellerpages\server-scripts\spellchecker.cfm

Default:

<cfset aspell_opts  = "-a --lang=#lang# --encoding=utf-8 -H --rem-sgml-check=alt">

I have tried:

<cfset aspell_opts  = "-a --lang=#lang# --encoding=utf-8 -H --add-extra-dicts=aspell.en_US.pws">

<cfset aspell_opts  = "-a --lang=#lang# --encoding=utf-8 -H --rem-sgml-check=alt  -H --add-extra-dicts=aspell.en_US.pws">

Both result in mispelled words not being flagged

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    ecoTokenAuthor
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    June 1, 2009

    Here is my partial solution to the problem.

    Aspell can write a Personal Word file to store customer words.

    The default location/File name is: C:\Program Files\Aspell\en.pws

    If the file doesn't exist it is a simple text document (the first line is required)

    personal_ws-1.1 en 3
    yourword1

    yourword2

    The simple solution to adding custom words is:

    1. Duplicate controls.html and rename controls.cfm
    2. Change spellchecker.html line 69 to: <frame src="controls.cfm">
    3. In the head of controls.cfm add:

    <cfif IsDefined("AddWord")>
         <cffile action = "append" file = "C:\Program Files\Aspell\en.pws" output = "#misword#">
    </cfif>

    4. Add to the table of controls.cfm where the submit button are

    <input class="buttonDefault" type="submit" name="AddWord" value="Add Word" />
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    ecoTokenAuthor
    Participant
    June 1, 2009

    These are some added features I added to solve a largest concerns about the simple solution, namely because the en.pws is accessed by anyone using the Aspell program any bad speller using the program the potential for a massive personal wordlist with all kinds of words that shouldn't be in it.

    Verify before adding

    1. To mitigate against the inadvertent adding of words in the header add:

    <script LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
        function confirmSubmit()
        {
        var agree=confirm("Are you sure you wish to Add this Word?");
        if (agree)
            return true ;
        else
            return false ;
        }
    </script>

    2. Change the input button to:

    <input class="buttonDefault" type="submit" name="AddWord" onClick="return confirmSubmit()" value="Add Word" />


    Check for Valid Domain

    This isn't my preferred solution to the problem of how to limit who can add words to the dictionary but it does work.

    1. Create a database that contains domains that can add words. The names in the db need to match the cgi.SERVER_NAME

    2. Create a cfml file called spelldomains.cfm and write something similar to:

        <cfquery name="GetSpellDomains" datasource="sb03">
            SELECT    domain
            FROM    spelldomains
            WHERE    domain = '#cgi.SERVER_NAME#'
        </cfquery>
        <cfset request.showaddword = GetSpellDomains.RecordCount>


    3. In the head of the controls.cfm file write:

         <cfparam name="request.showaddword" default="0">
         <cfinclude template="spelldomains.cfm">


    4. Change the submit button to:

    <cfif Val(request.showaddword)>
       <input class="buttonDefault" type="submit" name="AddWord" onClick="return confirmSubmit()" value="Add Word" />
    <cfelse>
         
    </cfif>


    My Preferred solution to the permission problem (if some CF genius want to provide the answer)

    I would rather enter a variable when the FCKeditor is called from the <cftextarea> tag that would toggle the Add Word option.

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