The code's great and provides a good jumping off point, but I thought it needed some updates. Davey's been a busy guy and I had a few free hours every other evening or so for a few, so I decided to start extending it.

Among the things he changed were some updates to the frontend text (to move away from hard-coded and into a more templated style) and the push of these changes into two new packages: Domain51_PEAR_Channel and Domain51_PEAR_Channel_Frontend. Together they allow access to the tables that Chiara_PEAR_Server creates and an extension system that allows for what he calls "package extras".