"Did you mean" feature

[FutureSpy]

Hello.

 

I'm new to these forums, so if I break any rules (though I've read them) I apologize in advance.

 

I want to implement a "did you mean" feature on a PHP/MySQL based dictionary script, but I have absolutely no idea of how that can be implemented. In short, whenever the word the user looks up isn't found in the dictionary, it'd return a few possible words suggesting it might have been a typo. I was told you give Finite Automata a try. Any ideas?

 

Thanks in advance

 

-Yuji

[JasonLewis]

There are a few spelling classes and functions out there.

 

There are functions such as pspell(), then there are classes that other people have made, such as Spell Checker or RhodaSpell. There are more spelling classes on the PHP Classes website.