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I've enabled pspell in my php/php.ini file (extension=php_pspell.dll), have both the pspell and aspell dll's installed and have restarted apache, but when i try to access the pspell functions, I get a Microsoft dialog that states: "Apache HTTP Server has encountered a problem and needs to close." Does anyone know how to what the problem is or if this will even work in XAMPP?

XAMPP (Basispaket) version 1.7.1

where did you get the aspell binary?

My 'pure guess' is that it is not a VC6 compliation for PHP 5.3, so prolly making things go boom

read this:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/ref.aspell.php

Good Luck

The version of XAMPP I installed is the last one before the upgrade to php 5.3. It already had both dll's installed but I downloaded them from the web thinking maybe there were newer versions. I'm not using ASpell at all. All of the code I have uses the pspell class. In fact, I copied/pasted the pspell example from php.net thinking I was doing something wrong but it failed the same way. After enabling it in php.ini and having problems, I searched the web for how to fix it and everything I found mentioned having to have the aspell dll. So it sounds like I have eveything I need but it doesn't work.

Use the php_pspell.dll that is included with your version of XAMPP, it should be in \xampp\php\ext.

You kinda omitted/stepped around the XAMPP version you have installed. 1.7.1?

The binaries have to be VC6 binaries, compiled for the exact version of PHP/Apache you have installed. -- Because XAMPP for Windows' PHP is compiled as an Apache Module.

You can search the forum on 'compile', 'VC6' or 'VC9' for the details or read this:

http://windows.php.net/download


OSF

The dll was in the php directory so I copied it to php/ext, enabled the option in php.ini andrestarted apache - same failure.

The number I posted is the only version number I could find.

My installation of XAMPP was installed from a package, xampp-win32-1.7.1.exe, so all of the included files should be compatible.