Enabling spell checking within FCKeditor
Posted in Development on April 23, 2006
CMS Made Simple uses the great GPL WYSIWYG editor FCKeditor and I noticed this morning that it has a spell checking facility.
To get it to work, I:
Installed aspell on my dev server:
apt-get install aspell Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: aspell-bin aspell-en dictionaries-common libaspell15 Suggested packages: aspell-doc spellutils ispell emacsen-common jed-extra The following NEW packages will be installed: aspell aspell-bin aspell-en dictionaries-common libaspell15
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Edited fckconfig.js:
[js]FCKConfig.SpellChecker = 'SpellerPages' ;[/js]
Edited editor/dialog/fck_spellerpages/server-scripts/spellchecker.php so that the path is to a unix binary rather than a windows one:
$aspell_prog = 'aspell'; // by FredCK (for Linux) //$aspell_prog = '"C:Program FilesAspellbinaspell.exe"'; // by FredCK (for Windows)
Now when I press the ABC (with a tick) icon I got a pop-up with my copy and the first unrecognised word highlighted, I've then the option to change, chose from replacements or ignore, much the same as any other spell check software.
Easy!