After learning Github is now offering SVN support (nearly all of my development work is done using SVN), I decided it was time to properly version my small changes to the great gRaphael library by forking the original code with my own account. I also decided to start to maintain smaller utilities I write for personal use through git on Github as well. The first of these packages is \Deefour\SpellCheck.
Introducing ”SpellCheck v1.0”. As mentioned in the README,
SpellCheck leverages “…the XML request/response used by the Google Toolbar…” accepting “… a string to be transformed into a corrected version of itself.”
This class simply makes all corrections suggested by Google to the original string passed in. Admittedly, this is not as flexible as some will like, but for now it suits my needs and is a great start. Some small points:
Usage instructions and code can be found in the v1.0 Tag on GitHub.
Soon after updating to PHP5.3 on my local computer I found that some legacy code I maintain which can not be updated currently no longer worked. After a bit of research1, I found the best solution for now was for me to downgrade back to the latest stable version of PHP 5.2, PHP 5.2.10. I needed to reinstall a few PEAR and PECL extensions which much of the code I maintain depends on.
[~] $ sudo pecl install memcache
pecl.php.net is using a unsupported protocal - This should never happen.
install failed
[~] $ sudo pear install Image_Color
pear.php.net is using a unsupported protocal - This should never happen.
install failed
I knew my PHP installs were done within /usr, so I found the PEAR .channels/ directories with
[~] $ cd /usr
[/usr] $ sudo find . -type d -name .channels
./lib/php/.channels
./share/pear/.channels
deleted them
[/usr] $ sudo find . -type d -name .channels -exec rm -rf {} \;
and then updated the channels
[/usr] $ sudo pear update-channels
Now installing extensions from PEAR and PECL is back to normal.
