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pspell_new_config

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.2, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

pspell_new_configLoad a new dictionary with settings based on a given config

Description

pspell_new_config(PSpell\Config $config): PSpell\Dictionary|false

pspell_new_config() opens up a new dictionary with settings specified in a config, created with pspell_config_create() and modified with pspell_config_*() functions. This method provides you with the most flexibility and has all the functionality provided by pspell_new() and pspell_new_personal().

Parameters

config

The config parameter is the one returned by pspell_config_create() when the config was created.

Return Values

Returns an PSpell\Dictionary instance on success, or false on failure

Changelog

Version Description
8.1.0 The config parameter expects an PSpell\Config instance now; previously, a resource was expected.
8.1.0 Returns an PSpell\Dictionary instance now; previously, a resource was returned.

Examples

Example #1 pspell_new_config()

<?php
$pspell_config
= pspell_config_create("en");
pspell_config_personal($pspell_config, "/var/dictionaries/custom.pws");
pspell_config_repl($pspell_config, "/var/dictionaries/custom.repl");
$pspell = pspell_new_config($pspell_config);
?>

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soapergem at gmail dot com
15 years ago
Today I ran into an interesting problem that I thought I'd share here to save the next developer that ends up in the same situation a whole lot of trouble. I have been running PHP5 as a FastCGI module on a Windows IIS server, and I recently installed the Aspell library and enabled the pspell extension in my php.ini file. I also installed the English Aspell dictionary. But when I went to use pspell, I was getting ambiguous errors that would terminate script execution without warning.

So I started to break things down, and came to the conclusion that the following code successfully executed its first line, but broke on the last line with the call to pspell_new_config:

<?php

$pspell_config
= pspell_config_create('en');
$pspell_link = pspell_new_config($pspell_config);

?>

This returned a FastCGI error in the browser, with error number -2147467259 (0x80004005). By luck, I happened to think to try the same script via the command line, which gave a much more descriptive error. What happened was that the dictionary installer created the *.dat files in the Aspell\data directory using the Windows standard CRLF "\r\n" instead of the UNIX standard "\n" for line feeds. By changing these all back to the UNIX standard, everything worked. It's apparently very touchy about these line feeds, so if you're wracking your brain over why pspell_new_config is breaking your scripts and you're using a Windows server, start by ensuring that there aren't any extraneous "\r" characters in your dictionary files.
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