Lucene search engine

[eluser]Nodren[/eluser]
hey i just wanted to throw this out there and see if anyone has done this before.

basicly, i want to impliment zend's lucene search engine with code igniter.

My reasoning is lucene is an awesome search implimentation, it covers all sorts of things most people dont think about when developing a search engine, and i think code igniter is a much better solution overall for a framework, with the exception its missing search.

Since i'm doing this for a personal project, i thought i could make this into a library, but has anyone already done this? if so do you have any pointers?

My main idea is i want to create a complete wrapper for the zend lucene engine, so you can call the code igniter lucene library and use it with out ever realizing worrying about the fact it interfaces zend framework, i'll only bring in the zend framework files necessary to do it.

i'll be releasing my sourcecode when i'm done, along with some documentation. but it will be for php5 only, and it wont touch any of the default CI code.