Kohana (php 5) differences with codeigniter..

[eluser]skunkbad[/eluser]
Kohana was actually my first framework. I got some experience with it while converting my website to use Kohana, and then I decided that Kohana was making my site slow, and I needed to either revert back to the old site, or use a different framework. Load time for my pages that weren't cached was just not acceptable.

When I came to CodeIgniter, I was very pleased with the forum, and the way the community would respond to my questions. That wasn't something I was getting from the Kohana forum. Also, as you have said, the Kohana docs are lacking, and at least in my experience, the docs were wrong because they were supporting older versions.

If you are not experienced with PHP, I'd say Kohana is definitely not for you. Search their forum for a thread or two on the subject of poor documentation, and you will see that the attitude of their community is that Kohana is for PHP elite / guru types, and that "it shouldn't need documentation because the code has adequate comments". Interestingly enough, Kohana V3 has been out for months, and when I last checked, there was still no documentation. I won't say they don't care, but they obviously don't have anyone dedicated to documentation.

I make websites for money, as a freelancer. I don't do this for fun, so I can't spend time trying to figure out a framework. I use CI because it works, and regarding the OOP of php4 vs. php5, you will be able to use whatever php5 OOP code you want with CI. You can use php4 OOP with CI as well, and you can't say that for Kohana.