How is Kohana Different?

Kohana is a PHP 5 framework that uses the Model View Controller architectural pattern. It aims to be secure, lightweight, and easy to use. Although Kohana uses many common design patterns and concepts found in other frameworks, here are some things that make Kohana stand out:

Community Driven

Kohana development is driven by a team of dedicated people that need a framework for fast, powerful solutions. Kohana development is driven by a team of dedicated people that need a framework for fast, powerful solutions.

Kohana development is driven by a team of dedicated people that need a framework for fast, powerful solutions.
Strict PHP 5 OOP

Offers many benefits: visibility protection, automatic class loading, overloading, interfaces, abstracts, and singletons.

Offers many benefits: visibility protection, automatic class loading, overloading, interfaces, abstracts, and singletons.
Lightweight

Kohana has no dependencies on PECL extensions or PEAR libraries.

The code base is lean and mean, so it's easy to find your way around.
Flexible

Almost every part of Kohana can be overloaded or extended without editing core system files. Modules can be added or created, which add functionility. You can also transparently extend any class if you need something different.
Easy to Learn

Kohana was well thought out, and is very easy to learn. There is great documentation, and if you get stuck, you can ask for help on the forums or in IRC.
Multi-Language Support

All Kohana functions are UTF-8 aware, so Kohana will work anywhere in the world!