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Kohanaphp.com has just released a new version 2.0.How about that?

Certainly going to check it out like i’m checking out Solar now.

Kool,Thanks CI team’s creative work again and again.CI 1.5.4 is good enough for me indeed.Howerver,I am waiting for CI 1.5.5 coming out desperately.I like to see the situation changing better and better,hope Kohana take me another surprise!

CI is my framework by choice but it doesn’t hurt to see how others work.
At work i have to use it because the servers have php4 and cake was a bit to steep to learn in a short while. So now i have written much code for CI and i feel comfortable working with it.

I have been digging into the Zend Framework lately and it is pretty nice.  The ZF DB abstraction layer is much more powerful than what you will find in CI or Kohona.  This is the project I think we should all be watching.

I see the Zend Framework more as PEAR like platform than as a framework but it’s worth to check out that is true.

I understand where you are coming from, but think ZF is soon going to start to appear as more of a RAD framework than a code library - or at least the option will exist.  At the moment, it is easy to put together MVC from the core, however, you have to do it yourself so it may seem daunting to novice programmers.  Based on what I have heard, there are some nifty command line tools in the works that will probably start appearing in the 1.2 (think rails like project/code generation).  I think tools like this, coupled with an increased focus on application design and better docs/tutorials will start to get the community more interested.

Returning to the topic of this thread, if anyone is interested in trying Kohana, you should be aware that the documentation is still in work, and will not be completed for a month or two at least.  There are some significant changes, including routing and the requirement for PHP5.

So if you are more a user than a developer, you might want to wait a month or two.  There are API docs and some tutorials, but nothing yet like the user guide that comes with CI.

cool

man ,take it easy.i posted this topic didn’t want to proof something or see the other guys attitude for this new born “similar framework”.what i mean is,what the exactly hell it is.It’s a bad one or a better one?

man ,take it easy.i posted this topic didn’t want to proof something or see the other guys attitude for this new born “similar framework”.what i mean is,what the exactly hell it is.It’s a bad one or a better one?

K2 is PHP5 Strict (no legacy PHP4 support), has UTF-8 string handling support, has internationalization and localization improvements (English for the USA is stored in language/en_US/, thus it’s possible for en_AU, en_GB, en_NZ, etc.), known performance improvements and bug fixes reconsidered for PHP5, improved validation, pagination abstraction with optional support for different pagination approaches, more modular file loading system with cascading file loading scheme, some CI libraries removed or replaced with alternate (off-the-shelf) solutions, helpers are now classes and can be subclassed, some use of interfaces for library abstraction, support for events, and so on…

K2 is PHP5 Strict (no legacy PHP4 support), has UTF-8 string handling support, has internationalization and localization improvements (English for the USA is stored in language/en_US/, thus it’s possible for en_AU, en_GB, en_NZ, etc.), known performance improvements and bug fixes reconsidered for PHP5, improved validation, pagination abstraction with optional support for different pagination approaches, more modular file loading system with cascading file loading scheme, some CI libraries removed or replaced with alternate (off-the-shelf) solutions, helpers are now classes and can be subclassed, some use of interfaces for library abstraction, support for events, and so on…

Can existing libraries from code igniter be used there? I suspect they should be. Maybe libs can be developed to work on both, that would be something. I find strict PHP5 appealing, PHP4 should be dumped. I know all the arguments, I am just saying what I think.

Well, it is nice to have options and hopefully code can go both ways.

Codeigniter libraries can be used in Kohana without much adaptation. Usually you’d change one line in the library or so, unless the library is of course dependent of CI-only libraries/functions. I ported CI’s ORM to Kohana, Kohana’s current ORM implementation is partly inspired by it.

Also, the modular approach allows for great flexibility in adapting CI stuff to Kohana.