I have just pushed some updates to the Git repository.
The entire Kohana distribution is now included. The bridging class is now renamed to ‘Kbridge’.
Not all helpers and libraries will work at the moment, especially the ones that reference Kohana core classes. I am however planning to bridge the core classes and configuration files for tighter integration.
If you have any suggestions please let me know. :)
Yii is an excellent PHP framework, but it lacks some helpers for performing common tasks.
Since I am so used to using Kohana helpers, hey, why don’t we bring these helpers into Yii? :)
It was over a year ago that I wrote the article that compares CodeIgniter and Kohana. Since then both CodeIgniter and Kohana have seen major progress with the release of CodeIgniter 1.7.0 and Kohana 2.3.
In December 2008, a new PHP framework called Yii has been released to the public with a stable 1.0. There were a lot of new PHP framework released in 2008, but Yii was one of the more recognised ones because:
Before I start this round of comparison, let me briefly list my experience with these frameworks, so you may interpret this article with your own judgement.
CodeIgniter: I started using CodeIgniter since its version 1.2.x from a few years ago. During the past few years I have worked on projects mainly using version 1.5.x and 1.6.x. I have now stopped using CodeIgniter in favour of using other PHP 5 only frameworks.
Kohana: I first started using Kohana when it was called BlueFlame back when it was first forked out of CodeIgniter. Since then I have lurked and participated in the Kohana community. All of my recent projects are done in Kohana.
Yii: The 1.0 release of Yii had my attention, but I didn’t really dive into it until about now. However, most of my impressions on Yii are based on its documentation and this article by Daniel.
Let’s see how they compare with each other.
Same notes as before: Grading scale: Limited < Fair < Good < Excellent. If a feature is not available in the distributed package, but is available via 3rd party libraries, I will state that in the comparison. If a feature is available both in the distributed package and via 3rd party libraries, only the official one will get assessed.
Latest release: v1.2.3
Initially I was going to wait for my Layerful Framework (a transparent layering framework for Kohana) to mature before releasing its bundled modules. However, since this Authlite module can be used independently to Layerful, I am releasing it now.
Authlite is a user authentication module for Kohana.
What’s the difference between Authlite and Auth?
Kohana comes with an official Auth module which does exactly what was described in the last paragraph, so why another module then?
It is because Authlite offers greater flexibilty. Please read the features outlined below to find more.
Since my previous post on this topic, Kohana has evolved and changed quite a bit, to the point that the instructions provided are no longer applicable.
So here are the updated instructions for those who would like to integrate Zend Framework into Kohana.
1) Put the ‘Zend’ folder in your application’s ‘vendors’ directory.
2) Put the following code into an appropriate place in your application, it could be in the base controller.
if ($path = Kohana::find_file('vendors', 'Zend/Exception'))
{
ini_set('include_path',
ini_get('include_path').PATH_SEPARATOR.dirname(dirname($path)));
}
3) Instanciate the Zend library with the following code:
require_once 'Zend/Mail.php'; $mail = new Zend_Mail;
That’s it! How simple is that? :)
Disclaimer: This is a very simple, ‘Hello World’ benchmark which has no impact to any real world applications. A more thorough benchmark test (by building two real world applications) is planned. :)
Disclaimer 2:I apologise for posting such a useless benchmark (I certainly didn’t expect it to hit the DZone front page), but I think most of you missed the point. I merely posted this as a result of surprise (to me anyway). At a later stage I will conduct a much more meaningful comparison between some of the frameworks. Until then, please ignore this post. :)
Last few days I have been playing with Ruby and Rails, again.
Today, when someone was asking on a forum about the efficiency of web frameworks, I thought I’d give the few frameworks I work with some more benchmark testing.
So I went ahead and benchmarked CodeIgniter, Kohana and Rails, using a simple ‘Hello World!’ page. Now before I post any benchmark results, you should know that I have previously done a benchmark test on CodeIgniter, Kohana and CakePHP. CodeIgniter and Kohana shared similar results.