ISpell Dictionary

[jaZon]

The dictionary is not on my server, so I downloaded a huge ZIP from the net. I unzipped and uploaded to the directory http://jazon.tqhosting.com/usertest/dictionary/

Now when running the function

function get_random_word($min_length, $max_length)
// grab a random word from dictionary between the two lengths
// and return it
{
   // generate a random word
  $word = "";
  $dictionary = "http://jazon.tqhosting.com/usertest/dictionary/";  // the ispell dictionary
  $fp = fopen($dictionary, "r");
  $size = filesize($dictionary);

  // go to a random location in dictionary
  srand ((double) microtime() * 1000000);
  $rand_location = rand(0, $size);
  fseek($fp, $rand_location);

  // get the next whole word of the right length in the file
  while (strlen($word)< $min_length || strlen($word)>$max_length) 
  {  

     if (feof($fp))   

        fseek($fp, 0);        // if at end, go to start
     $word = fgets($fp, 80);  // skip first word as it could be partial
     $word = fgets($fp, 80);  // the potential password
  };
  $word=trim($word); // trim the trailing \n from fgets
  return $word;  

}

It tells me:

Warning: fopen("http://jazon.tqhosting.com/usertest/dictionary/", "r") - Success in /home/virtual/site69/fst/var/www/html/usertest/user_auth_fns.php on line 102

Warning: stat failed for http://jazon.tqhosting.com/usertest/dictionary/ (errno=2 - No such file or directory) in /home/virtual/site69/fst/var/www/html/usertest/user_auth_fns.php on line 103

Why would it not be finding the file? Does anyone know anything about the ispell word lists?

[br__ken]

youre trying to fopen a directory, not a file - thats probably why it errors.. i have no idea what ispell is/does, but whats the directory look like?

[jaZon]

american.med+
american.xlg
british.med+
british.xlg
english.aff

the files in the dir

I believe ISpell comes standard on most UNIX systems. Just a huge word list.

[TGLMan]

Did you get this out of the book PHP and MySQL Web Development? Because there is a section in chapter 24 just like it. From what I can tell and I have not used this yet but will be is ispell is a server side program you need to acces it as one not from a URL this is what is in the book, hope this will help.

function get_random_word($min_length, $max_length)
// grab a random word from dictionary between the two lengths
// and return it
{
// generate a random word
$word = '';
//remember to change this path to suit your system
$dictionary = '/usr/dict/words'; // the ispell dictionary
$fp = fopen($dictionary, 'r');
if(!$fp)
return false;
$size = filesize($dictionary);

// go to a random location in dictionary
srand ((double) microtime() * 1000000);
$rand_location = rand(0, $size);
fseek($fp, $rand_location);

// get the next whole word of the right length in the file
while (strlen($word)< $min_length || strlen($word)>$max_length || strstr($word, "'"))
{
if (feof($fp))
fseek($fp, 0); // if at end, go to start
$word = fgets($fp, 80); // skip first word as it could be partial
$word = fgets($fp, 80); // the potential password
};
$word=trim($word); // trim the trailing \n from fgets
return $word;
}

The portion that is $dictionary = '/usr/dict/words'; // the ispell dictionary is telling the server where it is on the pc not on the web. It is a linux server side dictionary and must be used as one. This is why there is fopen and it runs this as a comand on your server "/usr/dict/words r", well something like that! Good luck