Adding Personal Dictionary to FCKeditor and Aspell

[ecoToken]

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

[ecoToken]

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" />

[ecoToken]

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.