Enable Enchant spelling in PHP?

Hi,

I need to enable the Enchant php extension in PHP (I am using Homestead). Has anyone done this before or know anything about it??

I want to enable it so I can check spelling from the TinyMce text editor... I have looked in the php.ini file and cannot see any reference to it..

Does anyone have any idea how to enable it?

Thanks.

Braunson

5 years ago

Level 18

I've never used the extension but installing it into your local instance is easy, check out this article on installing it:

https://zoomadmin.com/HowToInstall/UbuntuPackage/php-enchant

As for making use of it within your TinyMCE Editor, you'll have to look into how to use the extension.

squibby

5 years ago

Best Answer

Level 8

@braunson thanks but I gave up in the end with enchant. TinyMce have recommended Enchant but from my reading on it (the php docs are not too great on this topic) its seems a bit difficult to get working.

i had already tried the solution above and although Enchant was showing as enabled in phpinfo the enchant php methods were just not recognised...

I have though found a solution by installing php-spellchecker which can be found here:

https://tigitz.github.io/php-spellchecker/docs/getting-started/quick-start.html

Then customizing my response to what is expected by TinyMce. Hopefully that will assist anyone else in the same boat.

Thanks.

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