Pspell Extension Has Been Moved to PECL in PHP 8.4

The Pspell extension in PHP enables functionality for checking spelling of a word and offer suggestions. The Aspell C library, which the extension depends on, has not received updates in many years.

Before PHP 8.4, the Pspell extension was bundled with the PHP core. Since PHP 8.4, the Pspell extension has been moved to PECL and is no longer included in the PHP core. PECL serves as a repository hosting a diverse collection of PHP extensions.

PHP offers Enchant extension, which provides spell-checking functionality. This extension is part of PHP core and supports various backends such as Aspell, Hunspell, etc. However, the Enchant extension is not a direct drop-in replacement for the Pspell extension and migrating from Pspell to Enchant will require code modifications.