Spellify for Coldfusion V1.0 Released

Spellify is an awesome textarea spell checker which uses a smooth and effective Ajax based interface. It's written by Nikola Kocic and can be downloaded here: http://www.spellify.com/

I was immediately impressed by the look and feel of this project which uses the Google spelling API but was dissapointed to see that it only supported PHP and .NET.

Well, I couldn't have this so set to work on a Coldfusion version. As CF makes these kinds of thing simple, within 30 minutes I had knocked together a Coldfusion version of Spellify.php which makes the call to the Google API and returns the XML to the Spellify Javascript.

I haven't tested this massively but it's a simple piece of code and seems to work nicely so I thought I'd get it released so you can get integrating Spellify if you need a spellchecker for textareas on your site.

Let me know if you find any issues with it.

This *should* work with all versions of CF - at least back to CF6 anyway.

Download Spellify.cfm V1.0

Here are the instructions - taken from the included READ ME.txt:

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Spellify - Spellify.cfm v1.0 (based on Spellify.php by Nikola Kocic - http://www.spellify.com/)
Copyright (c) 2009 James Allen. (jamesallen.name, www.jwadevelopments.com)

E-Mail: james@jamesallen.name
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Spellify.cfm is a Coldfusion version of Spellify.php for use with the superb Spellify text area spellchecker.

INSTALLATION (the following is based on the default spellify.php install and using demo.html to test):

1. Download and unpack the Spellify PHP package: http://www.spellify.com/download.html

2. Place it somewhere in your webroot, e.g /wwwroot/spell/

3. Copy Spellify.cfm to the same location as Spellify.php in the Spellify sub-folder (e.g wwwroot/spell/spellify/spellify.cfm).

4. Edit 'spellify/src/spellify.js', line 47. Change:

var defUrl  = 'spellify/spellify.php';

to

var defUrl  = 'spellify/spellify.cfm';

That's it!

Spellify should now be working with Coldfusion. You will probably have to change the defURL when you implement the code on your site (e.g /functions/spellify/spellify.cfm etc).