Thanks for the report, but in my opinion, fixing spelling mistakes
in comments and error message for a stable version shouldn't be
done on such a large scale (if at all), because that may break
tests and other code relying on these spelling mistakes.

I think it would be worthwhile fixing this in master, so it would
be more useful if you could test that branch.

That's seems reasonable. So here the new report

 https://fossies.org/linux/test/php-src-master.tar.gz/codespell.html

that redirects currently to 

 https://fossies.org/linux/test/php-src-master-f8f48ce.191129.tar.gz/codespell.html

Also I removed some more obvious False Positives (a.o. machanism, crypted, aline, childs, trys).
Unfortunately I'm not familiar with PHP itself so my valuations may not always be correct.
So it may also meaningful for the experts to look at the supplemental pages

 https://fossies.org/linux/test/php-src-master.tar.gz/codespell_conf.html

showing some used codesspell configurations and

  https://fossies.org/linux/test/php-src-master.tar.gz/codespell_fps.html

showing all resulting False Positives.

Thanks for checking master!  I think at least some of these typos
should be addressed; I'll do so as soon as possible.

Thanks again for having created the codespell report and for
having opened this bug ticket!  Overall, I think it is a useful
tool, although fixing every single spelling mistake is a lot of
effort which can be spend more reasonably on other tasks.  Still I
fixed a lot of mistakes, and the spelling mistake count may now
roughly be halfed.

I didn't notice any real false positives reported by codespell,
but for instance, `Produkt` must not be fixed for the reported
cases, because it's used to test a German translation.  Also,
words like `alloced` and `dereferencable` don't appear to be
outright wrong (at least the former seems not uncommon in
programmer jargon).

Finally, there have been some correctly indentified spelling
mistakes regarding some of our bundled libraries (e.g. libpcre2,
libgd, timelib). Fixing these in the bundled libraries doesn't
make sense, since the mistakes would be reintroduced which every
update.  Instead it might be sensible to report these spelling
mistakes upstream.

I agree that fixing code mistakes is more important than fixing spelling mistakes.

The word `Produkt` is now ignored. The word `alloced` was already marked by Fossies as "Sloppy short computer slang" but is now also generally ignored. The word `dereferencable` seems to be a real misspelling but is now marked as "Common misspelling in programmer jargon".

Problematic for me as PHP-layman is the decision which directories are to be ignored. After your remark I tried firstly to ignore the "ext"-subdirectory completely assuming the name means "external" but looking deeper in the according files I found mostly a PHP copyright. So it means probably rather "extension" and I searched til depth 2 for subdirectories without a PHP copyright ending with

 date/lib
 fileinfo/libmagic
 intl/collator
 intl/common
 intl/converter
 intl/dateformat
 intl/formatter
 intl/grapheme
 intl/locale
 intl/msgformat
 intl/normalizer
 intl/resourcebundle
 intl/spoofchecker
 intl/transliterator
 intl/uchar
 pcre/pcre2lib

Since your mentioned bundled libraries seems included in the above list that directories are now also ignored (excluded).

Here the spelling error results with the old and the new codespell configuration:

             spelling error   false positives
 PHP      occurrences types occurrences types
 7.4.1           1473   308        1873   104  ("old" config)
                 1385   271        1771    97  ("new" config)
 f8f48ce.191129  1247   313        1914   107  ("old" config)
                 1157   276        1812   101  ("new" config)
 dabc28d.191221   520   296        1914   107  ("old" config)
                  432   259        1812   101  ("new" config)

Here for completeness the current Fossies codespell report URLs:

 https://fossies.org/linux/www/php/codespell.html
(https://fossies.org/linux/www/php-7.4.1.tar.xz/codespell.html) 

 https://fossies.org/linux/test/php-src-master.tar.gz/codespell.html
(https://fossies.org/linux/test/php-src-master-dabc28d.191221.tar.gz/codespell.html)
(https://fossies.org/linux/test/php-src-master-f8f48ce.191129.tar.gz/codespell_fps.html)

I continued what Christopher started, and fixed a lot of other spelling mistakes for the master branch. I think we are done for now. :)

Great, looks much better.

Here the current spelling error results

             spelling error   false positives
 PHP      occurrences types occurrences types
 c3cf01b.200116   232   149        1831   107  ("new" config)

and the according Fossies codespell report URLs

 https://fossies.org/linux/test/php-src-master.tar.gz/codespell.html
(https://fossies.org/linux/test/php-src-master.c3cf01b.200116.tar.gz/codespell.html)
(https://fossies.org/linux/test/php-src-master.c3cf01b.200116.tar.gz/codespell_fps.html)

Jens

I was very curious about the results, so thank you very much for the quick regeneration! It's really tempting to continue just a little bit more...

Jens,

If it's not a big ask, could you please regenerate the report for a very last time? I would be curious to see the fruit of our work. :)

It looks even better.

If it would be helpful, don't hesitate to request new checks!

Here the current spelling error results

             spelling error   false positives
 PHP      occurrences types occurrences types
 3c72105.200118   120    87        1827   107  ("new" config)

and the according Fossies codespell report URLs

 https://fossies.org/linux/test/php-src-master.tar.gz/codespell.html
(https://fossies.org/linux/test/php-src-master.3c72105.200118.tar.gz/codespell.html)
(https://fossies.org/linux/test/php-src-master.3c72105.200118.tar.gz/codespell_fps.html)