Pspell_new hangs

Teriyaki

I have a simple script to test the pspell function. It works fine when I run it on the command line, but when I try running it through a browser, it just hangs at pspell_new("en").

Any ideas why?

Here's the code:

<?php
$pspell_link = pspell_new("en");

if (pspell_check($pspell_link, "test")) {
echo "This is a valid spelling";
} else {
echo "Sorry, wrong spelling";
}

bradgrafelman

The exact same script worked via CLI but not browser?

Makes me wonder if it isn't a permissions-based problem? I don't know... that's odd.

Teriyaki

I run PHP scripts all the time, so I don't think it's a permissions issue unless the dictionary file is perhaps in an inaccessible folder?

bradgrafelman

That's what I was thinking (didn't express myself clearly apparently).

Prior to your post, I've never heard of the pspell library/function.

Where does it get its dictionary from? Are you running this form a Unix or Windows server?

mtmosier

Perhaps the cli version of php is using a different php.ini file than the web server version, and the web server ini file doesn't have the extention enabled. On my system apache, cli, and cgi all use different php.ini files.

When you view source you see just an empty document?

Teriyaki

It doesn't even get that far. It just stays on whatever page is currently loaded while the status bar reads, "waiting for website.com."

I created another PHP script that just had phpinfo() in it, and it shows that pspell is indeed enabled.

My ISP is running on Apache.

What really gets me is that it works on the command line!

bradgrafelman

That's interesting. How do you use different ini's for the CLI/web?

Also, can you give us the link to your phpinfo() page?

Teriyaki

Here's a link to my phpinfo() page:

[link]

bradgrafelman

Ok, and are you the server owner?

Is the aspell library installed? If not, install it:

sudhakar at mindscapecomputing dot com (13-Jul-2004 04:39)

The Following Steps to install Aspell and Pspell to work with PHP

Download these files

http://telia.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pspell/pspell-.12.2.tar.gz
Pspell Package

[url]ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/aspell-0.50.1.tar.gz[/url] Aspell Package

[url]ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/aspell-en-0.50-2.tar.bz2[/url] English Dictionary
for Aspell

untar the files
tar zxvf pspell-.12.2.tar.gz
tar zxvf aspell-0.50.1.tar.gz
tar jxvf aspell-en-0.50-2.tar.bz2

we have to install pspell first:

Get into the pspell-.12.2 directory

./configure

make

make install

cd modules

./add-modules

cd ..

make

make install

Second we have to install Aspell:
Get into the aspell-0.50.1 directory

./configure

make

make install

After Sucessfully compiled Apply the Dictionary
Get into the aspell-en-0.50-2 directory

./configure

Which should output something like:

Finding Dictionary file location ... /usr/local/lib/aspell
Finding Data file location ... /usr/local/share/aspell

make

make install

To Check aspell is working try this example

Create a file test.txt add the line "I am speled wron" and save the file

aspell check test.txt

from the command line.
after the above example work.

use --with-pspell when compiling PHP

Also, you might have corrupt files. I would reinstall aspell if you can.

More info on this in the man page for [man]pspell[/man].

EDIT: Does the user for the www process have access to '/usr/local' ?

mtmosier

That's interesting. How do you use different ini's for the CLI/web?

The binaries for my system do that by default. They build each version separately, and use something like "--with-config-file-path=/etc/php4/cgi" as an option to the configure script.

Sorry I haven't much more to add to the conversation. I agree it sounds like a permissions problem.

Teriyaki

Originally posted by bradgrafelman
Ok, and are you the server owner?

Is the aspell library installed? If not, install it:

Also, you might have corrupt files. I would reinstall aspell if you can.

More info on this in the man page for [man]pspell[/man].

EDIT: Does the user for the www process have access to '/usr/local' ?

No, I'm not the server owner. Can I still install aspell, or do I need to have the owner do it?

bradgrafelman

You most likely need the server owner to do it. Also, do you have shell access (telnet, SSH) to the server?

If so, try doing this:

cd /usr/local/lib/
whereis aspell
aspell --help

and paste us the output.

Teriyaki

Thanks for your help. Here you go:

Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla)
[jtchan@host jtchan]$ cd /usr/local/bin
[jtchan@host bin]$ whereis aspell
aspell: /usr/lib/aspell /usr/local/bin/aspell /usr/local/lib/aspell
[jtchan@host bin]$ aspell --help

Usage: aspell [options] <command>

<command> is one of:
-?|help display this help message
-c|check <file> to check a file
-a|pipe "ispell -a" compatibility mode
-l|list produce a list of misspelled words from standard input
[dump] config dumps the current configuration to stdout
soundslike returns the soundslike equivalent for each word entered
filter passes standard input through filters
-v|version prints a version line
dump|create|merge master|personal|repl [word list]
dumps, creates or merges a master, personal, or replacement word list.

[options] is any of the following:

--conf=<str> main configuration file
--conf-dir=<str> location of main configuration file
--data-dir=<str> location of language data files
--dict-dir=<str> location of the main word list
--add|rem-extra-dicts=<str> extra dictionaries to use
--add|rem-filter=<str> add or removes a filter
--home-dir=<str> location for personal files
-W,--ignore=<int> ignore words <= n chars
--[dont-]ignore-accents ignore accents when checking words
--[dont-]ignore-case ignore case when checking words
--[dont-]ignore-repl ignore commands to store replacement pairs
--keyboard=<str> keyboard definition to use for typo analysis
--lang=<str> default language to use when all else fails
--language-tag=<str> language code to use when selecting a dictionary
--local-data-dir=<str> location of local language data files
-d,--master=<str> base name of the main dictionary to use
--mode=<str> filter mode = none,url,email,sgml,tex
-e,--mode=email enter Email mode.
-H,--mode=sgml enter Html/Sgml mode.
-t,--mode=tex enter TeX mode.
--per-conf=<str> personal configuration file
-p,--personal=<str> personal word list file name
--prefix=<str> prefix directory
--[dont-]set-prefix set the prefix based on executable location
--repl=<str> replacements list file name
-C|-B,--[dont-]run-together consider run-together words legal
--run-together-limit=<int> maxium numbers that can be strung together
--run-together-min=<int> minimal length of interior words
--[dont-]save-repl save replacement pairs on save all
--[dont-]strip-accents strip accents from word lists
--sug-mode=<str> suggestion mode = ultra|fast|normal|bad-spellers
-b|-x,--[dont-]backup create a backup file by appending ".bak"
--[dont-]reverse reverse the order of the suggest list
--[dont-]time time load time and suggest time in pipe mode
--add|rem-email-quote=<str> email quote characters
--email-margin=<int> num chars that can appear before the quote char
--add|rem-sgml-check=<str> sgml tags to always check.
--add|rem-sgml-extension=<str> sgml file extensions
--add|rem-tex-command=<str> TeX commands
--[dont-]tex-check-comments check TeX comments

The following options will be ignored for compatabilty with ispell:
-m -n -P -S -w ARG -T ARG

RossC0

Does this work by any chance?

$pspell_config = pspell_config_create ("en");
$pspell_link = pspell_new_config($pspell_config);
if (pspell_check($pspell_link, "test")) {
   echo "This is a valid spelling";
} else {
   echo "Sorry, wrong spelling";
}

Teriyaki

Nope, didn't work either.

bradgrafelman

Ok, well I'm perplexed. I'm no master on Linux systems, but I would say this:

Maybe the user for 'www' doesn't have access to the /usr/local//lib/aspell program.

At this point, I can't think of what else it could be. Maybe you should contact your server owner and explain what's going on.