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I was impressed to see that the latest beta version of the open-source photo gallery software, Gallery2, is now based on the Kahona framework, a fork of the CodeIgniter framework:

How Did We Do It?

We have stood on the shoulders of giants. Gallery 3.0 is made possible by some truly great advances in technology.

  * Kohana - We evaluated many PHP frameworks before choosing Kohana. It’s speed, flexibility and power made it just what we needed. Thanks to the Kohana folks for providing this first class application framework!
  * PHP 5 - We’re taking advantage of many of the new features and capabilities available in the latest versions of PHP. This allows us to write much less code and have a faster product.
  * jQuery - the write less, do more Javascript library. Gallery 3’s rich user interface is heavily driven by Javascript and is made possible by the simple and powerful jQuery framework.

So ? This is CodeIgniter, not Kohana 😛…

C’mon, Yorick don’t be snarky! It is a codeigniter fork, therefore somewhat relevant. I use gallery2 and was impressed they adopted the framework in their app. I wish they would have chosen codeigniter, but at least it is a close cousin.

Kohana was originally a fork of codeigniter but i believe has since been written from the ground up.

Thanks for the info garymardell, i did not know they had rewritten it as i have always stuck with codeigniter; but it looks like i’ll have to be learning a little about that other framework in the future as gallery2 is used on alot of sites i maintain.

C’mon, Yorick don’t be snarky! It is a codeigniter fork, therefore somewhat relevant. I use gallery2 and was impressed they adopted the framework in their app. I wish they would have chosen codeigniter, but at least it is a close cousin.

Haha, I’m just messing with you 😛

The latest Kohana versions have been completely rewritten, so there is no more shared code.  However, Kohana 2.x shares many architectural similarities, making it possible to switch between the two and understand the code structure.  The Gallery3 release is currently using Kohana 2.3.4, but will likely be migrating to 2.4 when available.

The recently released Kohana 3.0 has a completely different architecture.  It’s a brand new framework.