finally researching the spell check stuff. Sorry. Check this out:

http://www.iespell.com/

browser plugin for IE that does spell check. Thought it was interesting. Just thought I'd share. I'll post more when I finalize which spell check mod to use.

uh-oh. I think a spell check is not going to work. *test*

ok, no spell check. Reason? The dictionary is kept as a MySQL database. So? I have a 120,000 word dictionary. So? That's 120,000 queries anytime someone uses the spellcheck. So? I have a limit of 35,000 queries per hour, per database user. With Piggie's help (and originally some other people) that equals 105,000 queries per hour. That's one spell check, per hour, or the forum shuts down.

Short of it, no spell check. Unless someone can find one that doesn't use a database to hold the words. Except that anything residing in, say, a PHP file, would just end up being real slow, I'm sure. Anyway, sorry.

Shame. So how about the attatchment mod?

if noone's interested in finding a replacement and pursueing the spell check mod some more, fine. I'll look into an attachment. BTW, I used phpspell, the only Piglet suggested. I actually inadvertantly stumbled onto the dev thread for it, and ended up at the same place Pig posted. Chances of that, eh?

Are you quite certain about that? That would be terrible design. The proper way would be to just do one query, and get the entire table into an array. I'd be very surprised if they really do it that way.

well, everything crapped out after I did a test spell check. "max_questions" limit exceeded. I can't think of anything else that would do that. There wasn't much traffic on the site...nowhere near as much as the hour directly afterward. All it could've been is something relating to the spell check. I may be wrong on the specifics (so sue me) but I very definetely linked it to spell check. Did spell check. Submitted post. Post succesfully submitted. Click for forum index... critical error, max_questions exceeded. I mean, if you can think of something else, I'm all ears.

I actually inadvertantly stumbled onto the dev thread for it, and ended up at the same place Pig posted
--eh? I don't recall posting anything more than that the link in here... What'chu talking about

Let me take a look at the code, and get back with you.

sho nuff. What I meant is I was googling for other spell checkers...ran into a development thread on a message board. Followed that to ANOTHER thread, followed a link in THAT....to the page you initially posted. Just funny like that, G.

erm, a bit. And then shelved it. I've decided on the mod I'm going to use, but it's gonna be alot of work installing it so I've kinda just put it off. I'm not going to make any promises. I've got several projects going right now that're keeping me quite busy (not just what you know about).