Overview

Kohana is an elegant HMVC PHP5 framework that provides a rich set of components for building web applications.
It requires very little configuration, fully supports UTF-8 and i18n, and provides many of the tools that a developer needs within a highly flexible system. The integrated class auto-loading, cascading filesystem, highly consistent API, and easy integration with vendor libraries make it viable for any project, large or small.
Features
- Highly secure
- Extremely lightweight
- Short learning curve
- Uses the MVC pattern
- 100% UTF-8 compatible
- Loosely coupled architecture
- Extremely easy to extend