RE: [Aspell-user] PHP Windows CGI error

[Chris Young]

I have also recently had problems accessing Aspell through PHP's functions. I think they were written for a much earlier version of pspell and are very limited.

 

I did get them to work on Linux using Aspell version .33, but I could not access a custom dictionary I set up so I gave up and used shell_exec to run Aspell from a command line pipe.

 

I would suggest not using the PHP function and just run a shell command. That PHP library needs to be updated and I believe someone is working on it. You have to do a little more work to parse the input you get back from running a shell command but once you set it up, the benefit of getting access to all of Aspell's features is worth it.

 

Here is a link to an example of how to do it: http://chxo.com/scripts/spellcheck.php

 

Click the View Source link to see the code.

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Rachel Green
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 9:48 AM
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Subject: [Aspell-user] PHP Windows CGI error

I have installed Aspell -0.50.3 on my machine which runs Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 4.  I am using IIS 5 and PHP version 4.3.6.

The Aspell program works fine from the command line, but when I try and use the pspell functions in a PHP page I get the following error message:

CGI Error

The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:

abnormal program termination
Unhandled Error: C:\Program Files\Aspell\dict/en-only.rws: The file "C:\Program Files\Aspell\data/iso8859-1.dat" is not in the proper format.

If I do a phpinfo() PHP tells me that the pspell functions are enabled, but it refuses to work.  I have tried a few different dictonaries with the same result.

Has anyone come across this problem and could offer advice?

Thanks