Now change the “bogus” part of the url to some other word. This is how this
was done:
was done:
In my Apache server configuration I have this:
<Location /s>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php3
</Location>
Then I created a file named simply ‘s’ and placed it in my document root. The file
contains:
contains:
<html><head><title>Simple Spell-Checker</title></head>
<body>
<h3>Simple Spell-Checker</h3>
<?php
$aspell_link=aspell_new("english");
$word = substr($PATH_INFO,1); /* strip away first / */
if (aspell_check($aspell_link,$word)) {
echo "Correct spelling of '$word'<P>n";
} else {
echo "Incorrect spelling of '$word'<P>n";
}
echo "Possible correct spellings include:<br>n";
$suggestions=aspell_suggest($aspell_link,$word);
for($i=0; $i < count($suggestions); $i++) {
echo "<li>" . $suggestions[$i] . "<br>";
}
echo "</ol>";
?>
</body></html>
The trick here is that by telling Apache that the /s resource is actually of MIME type
application/x-httpd-php3 which is the magical MIME type which triggers PHP, the s
file will be run like a PHP script. Any text in the URL following the /s will be put into the
$PATH_INFO variable. So in my script I just strip away the first slash and then treat the
remaining text as the word I want to spell check.
application/x-httpd-php3 which is the magical MIME type which triggers PHP, the s
file will be run like a PHP script. Any text in the URL following the /s will be put into the
$PATH_INFO variable. So in my script I just strip away the first slash and then treat the
remaining text as the word I want to spell check.
A couple of other variables get set to useful things on a request like this. Our /s/bogus request
from above results in the following:
from above results in the following:
SCRIPT_FILENAME = /home/httpd/html/s
REQUEST_URI = /s/bogus
SCRIPT_NAME = /s
PATH_INFO = /bogus
PATH_TRANSLATED = /home/httpd/html/bogus
You can of course discover this yourself by putting a <phpinfo()> tag in your
script and loading it up.
script and loading it up.
Now, for the spell checking part of this. There isn’t much to it. You can read about
the functions used here:
https://phpbuilder.com/manual/ref.aspell.php
the functions used here:
https://phpbuilder.com/manual/ref.aspell.php
If you don’t have aspell enabled, download the aspell tarball and install it. Note that
version 0.27 does not work with PHP since the author did not include a C-callable library.
Version 0.26 works fine. The author has promised to bring back the C-callable library in a
future version.
version 0.27 does not work with PHP since the author did not include a C-callable library.
Version 0.26 works fine. The author has promised to bring back the C-callable library in a
future version.
-Rasmus
