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What is Kohana?

Kohana is an elegant, open source, and object oriented HMVC framework built using PHP5, by a team of volunteers. It aims to be swift, secure, and small.
Kohana is a tool in the Frameworks (Full Stack) category of a tech stack.
Kohana is an open source tool with 1.5K GitHub stars and 427 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Kohana's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Kohana?

Companies
17 companies reportedly use Kohana in their tech stacks, including Zeel Networks Inc, Huia, and Yohanga.

Developers
37 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Kohana.

Kohana Integrations

Pros of Kohana
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Open source
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Efficient and lightweight
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Cascading filesystem
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Easy to understand PHP framework
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Extensible
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A business opportunity

Kohana Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Kohana?
Laravel
It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.
CodeIgniter
CodeIgniter is a proven, agile & open PHP web application framework with a small footprint. It is powering the next generation of web apps.
Yii
Yii comes with: MVC, DAO/ActiveRecord, I18N/L10N, caching, authentication and role-based access control, scaffolding, testing, etc. It can reduce your development time significantly.
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
Django
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
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Kohana's Followers
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