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Kohana vs Yii: What are the differences?

What is Kohana? An elegant HMVC PHP5 framework. 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.

What is Yii? A high-performance PHP framework best for developing Web 2.0 applications. 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.

Kohana and Yii can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

"Open source" is the top reason why over 3 developers like Kohana, while over 36 developers mention "Open source" as the leading cause for choosing Yii.

Kohana and Yii are both open source tools. It seems that Yii with 4.86K GitHub stars and 2.22K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Kohana with 1.61K GitHub stars and 464 GitHub forks.

180vita, Utrip, and FreshMail are some of the popular companies that use Yii, whereas Kohana is used by Huia, Zeel Networks Inc, and Plinga. Yii has a broader approval, being mentioned in 58 company stacks & 32 developers stacks; compared to Kohana, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

Decisions about Kohana and Yii

This website was originally written in Yii as PHP was my main language back then. After learning Django, I realized just how quickly you could build a web app with less lines. So I migrated my website to Django in a week or two and managed to cut down the lines of code by half. Some of the lines saving came from the models, the views, and the expressiveness of Python. Django requires like config for the models and they provide many generic views that abstracts away common patterns.

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Pros of Kohana
Pros of Yii
  • 4
    Open source
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    Efficient and lightweight
  • 3
    Cascading filesystem
  • 2
    Easy to understand PHP framework
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    Extensible
  • 1
    A business opportunity
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    Open source
  • 33
    Code generator
  • 33
    Simple
  • 29
    Active record
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    Full featured
  • 21
    Documentation
  • 21
    High performance
  • 20
    Rapid development
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    Flexible
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    Mvc
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    Not bloated
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    Stable Release
  • 8
    Community
  • 8
    Amazing
  • 7
    View Helpers
  • 6
    Modular architecture
  • 6
    Long Term Support
  • 5
    Easy setup, easy develop
  • 1
    Easy

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Cons of Kohana
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    • 2
      Unnatural love of arrays
    • 1
      Promotes spagetti code
    • 1
      Too Opinionated
    • 1
      Promotes bad practice

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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.

    What is 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.

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    What are some alternatives to Kohana and Yii?
    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.
    JavaScript
    JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
    Python
    Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
    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.
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