CodeIgniter vs Kohana: which one to choose?

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I tried several frameworks, which I could not get to work, were overly complex, had poor documentation, or were not designed with shared hosting environments in mind. I am thankful that CI was a platform I could actually install, run and develop on.

I value support and community very highly. I also value good documentation. A large library of modules that make sense, work together and are maintained by good authors is also important, like perl's CPAN. If I had gotten Catalyst to work on my shared host, I might have gone with that framework. It was also then in a state of constant change early in its development and I'm not very good at coping with that. But for a PHP framework, CI was simple, stable, flexible and had good documentation. It has some failings, but thankfully I have been able to keep things simple and work around them.