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Ever used Kohana?

Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 7:47 pm
by Kieran Huggins
Anyone ever used Kohana? It's an OOP fork of CodeIgniter.

Seems interesting, and as a DevNet++ it includes both Swift Mailer & HTMLPurifier... so it can't be all bad!

Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 11:47 pm
by RobertGonzalez
I looked at it, but the codebase is a little odd to me. It is clean, but seems a little disorganized. Not like a Swift or Solar.

Re: Ever used Kohana?

Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 3:47 am
by GeertDD
Kieran Huggins wrote:Anyone ever used Kohana? It's an OOP fork of CodeIgniter.
It is not like CodeIgniter does not use OOP. You are right, though, if you mean Kohana uses more OOP, including PHP5 functionality. For example, helpers are autoloaded in Kohana, meaning you can call e.g. text::limit_words() directly without having to $this->load->helper('text') first.

Also, I would like to point out that Kohana started out as a fork of CodeIgniter (under the name BlueFlame). However, the complete Kohana source has been rewritten and does not contain CI code anymore. Go ahead and compare, please. It is a whole new framework. You would be amazed about the differences.

Everah wrote:I looked at it, but the codebase is a little odd to me. It is clean, but seems a little disorganized. Not like a Swift or Solar.
Could you specify what exactly you find a bit odd in the structure? I like it. The system and application folder are completely separated and can be put anywhere you want. Functionality for running multiple sites on one Kohana system is available out of the box. Just change one line in index.php to point to the right location. Then there is the MVC structure. However, Kohana is very flexible. If you don't want to use models or views, no problem.

Kohana also uses a modular structure. This image should explain it all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kohana-modules.png

Re: Ever used Kohana?

Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 12:30 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Where is the SVN repo URL? I will go get it again and look it over. I just won't do it if I can't get it out of SVN.

Re: Ever used Kohana?

Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 1:45 pm
by GeertDD

Re: Ever used Kohana?

Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 2:55 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Ok, will be looking at it today. Thanks for the link.