Debugging this spell checker class

[mdowling]

I'm trying to mess around will spell checking via pspell. I'm just looking to make this code get some text and highlight the mispelled words. I know I can do more with it, but that's all I want right now. For some reason it thinks every word is misspelled. Eventually I'll want to highlight mispelled words and next to the word have a drop down box with all the possibilites in it.

class spell_checker {

	var $personal_path = "/speller/";
	var $skip_len      = 3;
	var $mode = PSPELL_NORMAL;

	var $pspell_handle;
	var $pspell_cfg_handle;
	var $personal = false;

	function spell_checker($dict = "en", $pconfig = "") {

		$pspell_cfg_handle = pspell_config_create($dict);

		pspell_config_ignore($pspell_cfg_handle,$skip_len);
		pspell_config_mode($pspell_cfg_handle, $mode);

		if($pconfig != "") {

			$pspell_handle = pspell_config_personal($pspell_cfg_handle, $personal_path.$pconfig.".pws");
			$personal = true;

		}

		$pspell_handle = pspell_new_config($pspell_cfg_handle);

	}


   	function suggest($word) {
		return pspell_suggest($this->pspell_handle, $word);
	}

  	function check($word) {
     	return pspell_check($this->pspell_handle, $word);
  	}

  	function add($word) {
  	   if(!$personal) return false;
  	   return pspell_add_to_personal($this->pspell_handle, $word);
	}

	function close() {
		if(!$personal) return;
		return pspell_save_wordlist($this->pspell_handle);
 	}
}

function CheckSpelling($mystr) {

	$spell_chk = new spell_checker("en", "");

	$spell_chk->add('bunk');
	$spell_chk->add('bunkology');
	$spell_chk->add('bunkism');

	$outstr = "";

	$words = split("[^[:alpha:]']+", $mystr);

	foreach($words as $val) {

		if($spell_chk->check($val)) {

			$outstr = $outstr . $val;

		} else {

			$outstr = $outstr . "<span style='background-color: #FF0000'><font color= '#000000' face='Arial' size=2>$val &nbsp;</font></span>";

			foreach($spell_chk->suggest($val) as $suggestion) {

			   echo ' '.$suggestion;

			}

			echo "$val<br>";

		}

	}

	$spell_chk->close();
	return $outstr;
}