Kohana: Which alternatives are available?

Question

Since Kohana seems to be very poor documented and my time is valuable, I may want to stick with something that lets me get a web platform faster up and running.

I know it forked from Code Igniter. I actually like the idea of Kohana, but since the big hole in documentation it seems to be a bad alternative. Well, almost everyone on the net complains about it's bad documentation, so I believe it's bad.

So despite of Code Igniter and Kohana itself, what else is worth looking at that makes life easy and not harder?

Answer 1

I would recommend Zend Framework

• Easy to learn
• Well documented
• MVC
• Very large, contains everything you may need

Answer 2

For a comprehensive framework, try or Cake PHP. If you want a more simple, lite framework try simple php framework. A comparison of PHP frameworks here

Answer 3

This isn't a direct answer to your question, but my experience with Kohana has been that its documentation, while lacunary, is quite enough to get you started and that for everything else, a quick glance at the code itself usually tells you what you need to know without too much effort -- it's pretty well-commented, and well-organsied.

I've found development in Kohana to be fairly speedy so, even if you do value your time highly, you may find the initial investment pays off.

Answer 4

This is perhaps the most asked question on SO with regard to PHP.

I would suggest that you read all of the very fine answers to all of the very fine questions that I found with this search: PHP Framework