Smarter Sheep

Kohana is a fast lightweight framework for developing php applications. I have been working through some of the information and tutorials on their site. Kohana is a branch off the CodeIgnitor php framework. I looked at Codeignitor first but wound up looking deeper into Kohana primarily because Kohana is based on PHP 5 and Codeignitor was based off of PHP 4. Codeignitor had a pretty good reputation but because it was created and supported by a company with an existing product to support it went for long breaks between updates etc. Apparently a large group of the community got unhappy and created their own branch off the source for PHP5 and then ended up doing a major rewrite all together. i may be getting some of my details wrong, but this is what I can tell from things I have read googling. In any case. I really like them both. They are both light and fast. They certianly don’t do all the work for you, but the frameworks I have used in the past tended to be so bloated and heavy that I spend just as much time trying to work around them as I would have just leaving them out to begin with.