Kohana is an elegant HMVC PHP5 framework that provides a rich set of components for building web applications.
It requires very little configuration, fully supports UTF-8 and i18n, and provides many of the tools that a developer needs within a highly flexible system. The integrated class auto-loading, cascading filesystem, highly consistent API, and easy integration with vendor libraries make it viable for any project, large or small.
Why Use Kohana?
- You need to build applications quickly.
- Many common components are included: translation tools, database access, code profiling, encryption, validation, and more.
- You need to use specific libraries and tools.
- Extending existing components and adding new libraries is very easy.
- You need to write commercial applications.
- Uses the BSD license, so you can use and modify it for commercial purposes.
- You want a very fast framework.
- Benchmarking a framework is hard and rarely reflects the real world, but Kohana is very efficient and carefully optimized for real world usage.
- You want good debugging and profiling tools.
- Simple and effective tools help identify and solve performance issues quickly.
- You want to know what the framework is doing.
- Very well commented code and a simple routing structure makes it easy to understand what is happening.
- You like working with objects and classes, rather than files and functions.
- This is an OOP framework that is extremely DRY. Everything is built using strict PHP 5.2 classes and objects.
- You prefer to write your own code, rather than having it generated for you.
- There are no code generators and endless configuration files, so setting up is fast and easy.
- You need community support.
- A very active community forum and IRC channel means that most questions are answered very quickly.