lucym

Hello, I want to add the 'did you mean' feature (like on Google) on my shareware site, where a lot of users have mistypes, and they get 0 results... so they exit the site very fast. Do you have any idea how I could implement such a thing? Does it require a dictionary or something? I found some scripts, but none of them gave relevant results... just stupid, irrelevant suggestions. Any help would be appreciated... some sample code would be awesome
Thanks, Lucy

Chris

Sample code is a long shot. This kind of programming can be quite advanced, and unfortunately will almost certainly require custom work.

The only type that is all that common, or one-size-fits-all, is the auto-complete type that uses AJAX to check for matches based on what the user has typed so far. But picking up on misspellings and such can be a lot trickier.

I wrote something not unlike this awhile back that allowed me to manually enter common misspellings and look for those, but that's about as good as it's going to get without getting into a lot of work. Also wrote a function which automatically flips every two characters to check for transposition errors, as well, but still, that's a lot simpler than what you're looking for.