Integrating CI with Pear DB class

[eluser]Myles Wakeham[/eluser]
I'm trying to inherit some open source code from another developer to work with a MySQL database. My goal is to turn his class into a library function in CI so that I can use it in multiple CI projects I'm working on.

The code includes the Pear DB library, so either I have to go through his code line by line and re-write it to work with the CI database connection classes, or find a way to get Pear DB to work inside of CI. On first glance there seems to be some naming conflicts in there between CI's database classes and Pears.

Out of interest, has anyone had to do a similar thing with Pear DB and CI together before? I'm curious as to the level of effort that was involved in making classes written for Pear to work inside of CI.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Myles