27 May, 2008
Kohana Php - an open source web application framework for PHP.
Posted by: Oleg Puzanov In: Programming
Today I would like to present you very interesting project: Kohana Php - an open source web application framework for PHP.
Reference
Framework - framework is a re-usable design for a software system (or subsystem). A software framework may include support programs, code libraries, a scripting language, or other software to help develop and glue together the different components of a software project. Various parts of the framework may be exposed through an API.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_framework
Kohana is a fork of the CodeIgniter framework written in PHP 5. Design goals - to be fast, flexible, well documented, lightweight and extensible.
Main features:
- Highly secure
- Extremely lightweight
- Short learning curve
- Uses the MVC pattern
- 100% UTF-8 compatible
- Loosely coupled architecture
- Extremely easy to extend
You can download Kohana Php here.
Also, you can optionally include in your download package the following modules:
- Auth – Simple authentication and user management
- Forge – Object-oriented form generation and templating.
- Media – Media caching, compression, and aggregation for CSS and Javascript files.
- Kodoc – Dynamic self-generated documentation.
Kohana available in several languages - English (US), English (UK), Dutch, French, German, Macedonian, Spanish. Latest version at this moment v2.2.1 (released on February 6th, 2008)
Links
Tutorials: http://kohanaphp.com/tutorials.html
User guide: http://docs.kohanaphp.com/
Forum: http://forum.kohanaphp.com/
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