[pmwiki-users] Small headache with a spell check attempt.
Crisses
crisses at kinhost.org
Sat Dec 16 07:51:56 CST 2006
On Dec 15, 2006, at 6:58 PM, Seth Cherney wrote:
> I have been trying to integrate a java spell check into pmwiki, as
> I cannot access pspell/aspell on my hosted server.
Geek note: Java is not JavaScript. :) Java is by Sun Corporation,
and is a very very hefty undertaking. JavaScript is by Netscape Corp
I believe, and is meant for browser scripting. The two came out
around the same time, and the names are very very confusing.
This is JavaScript. I started reading and went "Java! I can't help
with Java!!" :) Good thing I kept reading.
> My thought was only to mod PM's spellcheck.php to call the other js
> (it works on js in the browser as well. The spell checker I am
> trying to integrate is VERY easy to integrate (but I am no coder).
> It is sourceforge.net/projects/jspspellcheck, based on jazzy - and
> using word lists fo dicts (ie can make any language!).
>
> I was dropping the whole thing into the pub directory, then trying
> to rewrite the spellcheck.php in the cookbook to point to it.
> There are a few syntax problems converting the js to php compatible
> js, and it tries to find the form name, but ther is no form name in
> pmwiki edit, just for the text area.
Ok -- actually this is probably a make-or-break issue. When using
JavaScript to "script the DOM" (document object model or something)
it really needs to have a "name" on the "object" (in this case the
browser's text area) to point to.
The getElementById needs a CSS Id on the item you're accessing...
such as <textarea id="spellCheckme"> id tags are meant to be unique
identifiers on the page -- used only once. JavaScript takes
advantage of that fact, and uses it to target an item on the page.
> bellow is the file I have been trying to work on. the two lines
> with !!! are the ones I believe causing probs. someone with a
> little time could perhaps download jspspellcheck and give me some
> help?? I think it is very easy for someone with background (I am a
> theologian).
Sorry I don't have time to do that :/
> This will add a "spell check" button to the GUI button bar, and
> link in the necessary spell checking scripts.
> #<script src='$PubDirUrl/speller/spellChecker.js'></script>
> #<script type='text/javascript' >
> #function openSpellChecker() {
> # var textarea1 = document.getElementById('text');
> # var speller = new spellChecker( textarea1 );
> # speller.popUpUrl = '$PubDirUrl/speller/spellchecker.html';
> ## speller.openChecker();
> #}
> #</script>
> */
>
> # If we're not editing, then just exit.
> if ($action != 'edit') return;
> # Configure in the Speller Pages javascript code.
> $HTMLHeaderFmt[] = "
> <script src='$PubDirUrl/jspspellcheck/jspspellcheck/spellcheck-
> caller.js'></script>
> <script type='text/javascript' >
> function spellCheck(){
> var elements = new Array(0);
> !!! elements = document.getElementById('text');
Unless the id on the box is specifically "text" this will fail.
You can try getElementsByTagName and "textarea"?
elements = document.getElementsByTagName("textarea")
if(elements.length) {
!!! startSpellCheck('$PubDirUrl/jspspellcheck/', elements );
}
}
</script>
This is me guessing. I am a programmer, but I'm NOT a JavaScript
programmer.
it's either this, or find a way to add the id="text" to the HTML for
the textarea.
Crisses
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