Spell checker

[markjia]

I want to add a spell checker for a form and I'm trying to get this program i found on sourceforge.net called 'sphpell' to work. However, I followed their directrions, but in the spell check window, i get this error message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: pspell_new() in /home/fotobec/public_html/journal/sphpell/spellcheckwindow.php on line 160

Does this mean that my webhost has does not support sphpell? Or is there something i have not configured properly?

[shawon22]

it means that function does not exist

[markjia]

but i thought that pspell_new() is part of php. i am thinking that it is because it has not been installed by my web host...but i'm not sure, so I wanted to verify here.

[laserlight]

PHP has to be compiled with Pspell for those functions to work.

[markjia]

Right, I was affraid that...

Is there any chance that the reason for the error is in my attempt at integrating sphpell, or is it surely due to not having pspell compiled on the host? I doubt that I can get my web host to recompile php for me. If not, is there any way i can use a spell checker on my page?

[Weedpacket]

Assuming a suitable configuration of pspell when it's compiled, you might be able to use [man]dl[/man] to load it at runtime.