Kohana is the PHP5 framework started as a fork of Codeigniter. When Codeigniter first appeared, it delighted the developers with its elegant user guide and simple and straightforward usage patterns. Codeigniter has only one limitation – that it doesn’t leverage the features of PHP5; creators of Codeigniter won’t regard this as a limitation because, it was meant to support both PHP4 and PHP5:)
Most of the clients who were forced to retain their old PHP4 server without upgrading to PHP5, but wanted to follow an organized structure for their projects welcomed Codeigniter. (more…)