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    Examples

    Example #1 Enchant Usage Example

    <?php
    $tag     = 'en_US';
    $r = enchant_broker_init();
    $bprovides = enchant_broker_describe($r);
    echo     "Current broker provides the following backend(s):\n";
    print_r($bprovides);

    $dicts = enchant_broker_list_dicts($r);
    print_r($dicts);
    if (    enchant_broker_dict_exists($r,$tag)) {
            $d = enchant_broker_request_dict($r, $tag);
            $dprovides = enchant_dict_describe($d);
        echo     "dictionary $tag provides:\n";
            $wordcorrect = enchant_dict_check($d, "soong");
            print_r($dprovides);
        if (!    $wordcorrect) {
                $suggs = enchant_dict_suggest($d, "soong");
            echo     "Suggestions for 'soong':";
                print_r($suggs);
        }
            enchant_broker_free_dict($d);
    } else {
    }
    enchant_broker_free($r);
    ?>

    User Contributed Notes

    robert dot johnson at icap dot com
    3 years ago
    Here is help for Windows users:

    You need to add dictionaries to your computer for Enchant.

    1. Enchant looks in your registry keys, I don't know what keys it wants, but it looks here - I ignored all of these:
      * Default User\Software\Enchant\Config
      * Default User\Software\Enchant\Ispell
      * Default User\Software\Enchant\Myspell
    2. It looks for OpenOffice dictionaries (from the registry settings for OpenOffice)
    3. It looks in folder [PHP]\share\myspell\dicts

    I got it working by copying the en-us dictionary files from Firefox into \share\myspell\dicts, and renaming them en_US.*.  You can download and install dictionaries from OpenOffice from here I think: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/dictionary

    Enchant creates and writes to the following folder, so you must allow PHP read and write permissions to: [SYSTEM32]\config\systemprofile\Application Data\enchant

    It would be convenient if Enchant could accept parameters to specify the location of the main dictionaries and user-dictionaries, I suppose the registry keys are the only way to do it.
    ch1902
    2 years ago
    One thing to add to robert.johnson's very helpful post, I found that the dictionary files (*.dic and *.aff) could only contain A-Z and _ characters or they wouldn't be listed in the output of enchant_broker_list_dicts() (at least for PHP 5.4 / Windows).

    This was an issue when downloading some of the dictionary files from https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/language-tools/ where the file names contained hyphens, pt-BR for example. Just replace the hyphen with an underscore in the file name and enchant recognises the language code.
    robert dot johnson at icap dot com
    2 years ago
    To repeat a note by  wschalle at gmail dot com on page http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.enchant.php

    The enchant library does not work unless libenchant_myspell.dll and libenchant_ispell.dll are placed in [PHP]\lib\enchant from PHP 5.4.13.

    Dictionaries will still load from [PHP]\share\myspell\dicts.
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