CodeIgniter vs Kohana: which one to choose?

[eluser]nmweb[/eluser]
[quote author="Derek Allard" date="1206217177"]I think you already answered your own question. Kohana developers (some of whom have already chimed in on this thread) are of course going to favour it. At the end of the day, you need to make your own decision, and the only way to do this properly, is to try both out. Good luck.[/quote]

I agree with Derek here. You have to decide in the end. I personally have done a lot of frameworks shopping at several occasions. I have also seen quite some nice ideas that some frameworks employ. I finally choose CI over other frameworks because of the simplicity and straightforwardness and very important, extendability. I incorporated several ideas into my blend of CI and now I do the same with Kohana.

Anyway, I would very much recommend to do some shopping, take a look at Zend Framework, Symphony, Cakephp and outside of the php realm, Ruby on Rails and Django. What is it you desire from a framework? Do you want a lot of magic happening or a more straightforward approach? It's all up to you and when you get stuck there are always people willing to help you out.