[Aspell-user] windows + php + aspell = trouble

[Bram de Jong - MTG]

Hey everyone,


I've been looking at the web for about half a day, and I've seen MANY 
posts, but no answers... Does *anyone* here have aspell + php working on 
a WINDOWS installation with the 'latest' available windows versions of both?

I did all the "necessary" steps:

* added the extension to php.ini (no matter what the PHP manual says)
* copied the aspell DLL's to c:\PHP\ for good measure
* tried running aspell command line ("aspell dump dicts" and "aspell -c 
somefile" working perfectly)

However, in PHP:

 $pspell_config = pspell_config_create ("en","american");
 pspell_config_mode($pspell_config,"PSPELL_FAST");
 $spell = pspell_new_config ($pspell_config);
                
 => Warning: PSPELL couldn't open the dictionary. reason: No word lists 
can be found for the language "en".

I've tried multiple things (some resulting in internal server errors) as 
trying a unix2dos utility (suggested somewhere), trying different 
directories for installing (knowing that there are many programs that 
have trouble with the space in "program files"), etc etc


Imho the main problems for windows are that:

1. no-one seems to know how aspell figures out where you installed the 
dictionaries. It would make perfect sense to me to POINT aspell manualy 
to the dictionary locations, or at least set a config file somewhere. Is 
this location set in the registry? How does it work, is it possible to 
debug? (the fact that aspell mixes forward and backward slashes bothers 
me a bit, is this ok?)

2. PHP for windows doesn't seem up to date... Is anyone still actively 
developing PHP <-> aspell?

3. there's no windows DLL's of newer versions of either aspell or the 
php dll extensions.


A lot of questions!! :-)

If anyone gives me a hand solving these problems I'll make sure there's 
a nice and big HOWTO for PHP+windows+aspell somewhere so you guys can 
chill out when there's noobs like me asking these questions over and 
over again :-) ;-)


 - bram

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