Kohana PHP Framework
by Stii
Now I’m not going to start a “my-framework-is-better-than-yours” pissing contest again. I’ve learned that 1) People are not easily convinced that what they are using is actually inferior to what they should be using and 2) life is simply too short to try and convince people otherwise.
No, I will say that Kohana PHP is MY framework of choice. I like the way it utilize strict PHP5 OOP practices. It is very similar to Code Igniter and I’ve been a fan of CI for a long, long time. In fact, it was based on CI. I like the flexibility. I like the way templates and views work. I like the way it uses convention over configuration or as they call it “a cascading filesystem“. I like the fact that it allows you to access the $_GET variables which CI does not by default. I can go on and on and on. There are many. The list is too bloody long.
The community is smallish, but it is growing. It is completely Open Source and is not controlled or maintained by a single entity as is the case with CI.
All in all, it fits me. It allows me to do what I need to do quickly. I know it might not be perfect, but that does not matter as long as it gets my work done.
Word of advice: If you are looking for a neat/fast/flexible little framework in PHP, check it out. I highly recommend it! :)
Oh, and FYI, both Afrigator and (I believe) Ushahidi are proudly Kohana PHP Powered!
Kohana isn’t bad at all, especially coming from a CI perspective.
Have you seen any performance test results yet?
Sean
@Sean I did somewhere and I think CI did slightly outperform it. Thing for me is that I don’t really think that the difference in performance justified me staying with CI. Both CI and Kohana outperformed Zend hands down, but that won’t make people sway away from Zend that easily.
Stii, I somehow missed this blog post. You know, we thought long and hard about our framework (actually, we thought long and hard about python vs PHP too). It takes a few hours for the new volunteer devs to come up to speed on it, but once they get it, they like it.
It is one fantastic framework. Simple, flexible and easy to learn. Good choice hash!
@Stii & @hash
Any particular reason you chose PHP over Python?
Ismail, purely due to time constraints and basically because Afrigator used to be Code Igniter which is not far removed from Kohana. I love Python. If I could have it my way, it would’ve been in Python long ago!