Kohana (php 5) differences with codeigniter..

[eluser]Johan André[/eluser]
Hi and welcome!

Codeigniter runs on both PHP4 and PHP5. The framwork itself is able to run in PHP4 but (if your server is PHP5) you code for PHP5 preferably. I write all my libraries using PHP5-features, usually because it's better at OOP.

Codeigniter has (like you already noticed) awesome docs and one of the best communities I've ever seen.

Furthermore, Codeigniter lacks ORM by default which I believe Kohana has. For me that is not a big drawback.

Kohana is a fork of Codeigniter which is PHP5 only.
There are other framworks for PHP which are worth to mention:

Symphony, www.symfony-project.org
CakePHP, www.cakephp.org

My choice is ofcourse Codeigniter, since it's easy to deploy in a shared environment and VERY easy to extend and code for. Go with CI and join us here!