Kohana (php 5) differences with codeigniter..

[eluser]Benjamin Midget[/eluser]
Frankly, I only use CI to maintain CI sites that I don't have time to port to Kohana.

Here are some Kohana tibits:

* Kohana was originally a fork of CI but is completely rewritten at this point. It's brand of MVC design philosohpy is still based on CI, thus learning Kohana from CI is not difficult. Jumping head-first into Kohana is an admittedly overwhelming thing because of it's unperfect docs

* To me Kohana feels like the obvious step from CI. Find yourself thinking "I wish CI would let me..." and finding workarounds inside CI? Enter Kohana. It is a more straightforward way of programming, because, frankly, we are beyond dancing around php4. And yes, fully working in php 5 makes a difference.

* Kohana community is growing and very knowledgeable. The forum is good, but I admin CI's forum is one of the best out there. Still, I can get an answer quicker on kohana's irc channel than from anyone at CI when needed.


I used to be a huge fanboy of CI--I still respect it as the second best framework available--but after working with Kohana, going back feels archaic.

There are other frameworks, but to me Kohana and CI are the only ones that aren't bloated and work the way I want to (Props to Ellis Labs in the highest order for coming up with the design pattern in the first place). Kohana wins on every single level for experienced programmers.

Give it a try, mess around with Kohana's 2.3.4 (stable) build and install the Formo module and mess around with those a bit. I betcha you'll feel like you've entered heaven.