Here is what I want to do. I want to be able to load a list of
correctly spelled words in and then the script will come up with
misspelled versions of that word and insert it into a mysql db. My
question is, where would I start?

Thanks,
Bryan

On 3 Oct, 01:47, BryanA <Bryan.Andr...@gmail.comwrote:

Here is what I want to do. I want to be able to load a list of
correctly spelled words in and then the script will come up with
misspelled versions of that word and insert it into a mysql db. My
question is, where would I start?
>
Thanks,
Bryan

Are you having problems with the basic loading and saving, or with the
"generating mispelled" bit (which looks vaguely-defined to me) ?

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>Here is what I want to do. I want to be able to load a list of
>correctly spelled words in and then the script will come up with
>misspelled versions of that word and insert it into a mysql db. My
>question is, where would I start?

What for?
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On 3 Oct, 01:47, BryanA <Bryan.Andr...@gmail.comwrote:

Here is what I want to do. I want to be able to load a list of
correctly spelled words in and then the script will come up with
misspelled versions of that word and insert it into a mysql db. My
question is, where would I start?
>
Thanks,
Bryan

Work out an algorithm, implement the algorithm in PHP then test it.

C.

BryanA wrote:

Here is what I want to do. I want to be able to load a list of
correctly spelled words in and then the script will come up with
misspelled versions of that word and insert it into a mysql db. My
question is, where would I start?
>
Thanks,
Bryan

An algorithm such as the one used in:

http://www.norvig.com/spell-correct.html

can be re-written in php as in the following:

$word = "Spelling";

$word = strtolower($word);

$length = strlen($word);

// deletion
for ($i=0;$i<$length;$i++)
$variants[] = substr($word,0,$i) .
substr($word,$i+1,$length-$i-1);

// transposition
for ($i=0;$i<$length-1;$i++)
$variants[] = substr($word,0,$i) .
substr($word,$i+1,1) .
substr($word,$i,1) .
substr($word,$i+2,$length-$i-2);

// alteration
for ($i=0;$i<$length;$i++)
for ($c=ord('a'); $c <= ord('z'); $c++)
$variants[] = substr($word,0,$i) .
chr($c) .
substr($word,$i+1,$length-$i-1);
// insertion
for ($i=0;$i<$length+1;$i++)
for ($c=ord('a'); $c <= ord('z'); $c++)
$variants[] = substr($word,0,$i) .
chr($c) .
substr($word,$i,$length-$i);
// remove identical variants
foreach ($variants as $n =$variant)
if ($variant == $word)
unset($variants[$n]);

print_r($variants);

-Lee

Response to BryanA <Bryan.Andreas@gmail.com>:

Here is what I want to do. I want to be able to load a list of
correctly spelled words in and then the script will come up with
misspelled versions of that word and insert it into a mysql db. My
question is, where would I start?

Unit tests are an ideal place to start. Look for the functionality
you desire.

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