What is Kohana?
Kohana Framework
Kohana is a relatively new PHP Framework. The popular CodeIgniter has been a common choice for developers worldwide and sports a very active community. It has grown substancially, and while this may produce various benefits, it no longer satisfies the development of light-weight yet powerful web-based systems. Some of the core CodeIgniter developers recognized this and, taking the already powerful CodeIgniter, stripped it of the fat leaving behind only the powerful core. Kohana was born.