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Introduction

Kohana is a PHP5 framework that uses the Model View Controller architectural pattern. It aims to be secure, lightweight, and easy to use. Features 1.Strict PHP5 OOP. Offers many benefits: visibility protection, automatic class loading, overloading, interfaces, abstracts, singletons, etc. 2.Community, not company, driven. Kohana is driven by community discussion, ideas, and code. Kohana developers are from all around the world, each with their own talents. This allows a rapid and flexible development cycle that can respond to new bugs and requests within hours. 3. GET, POST, COOKIE, and SESSION arrays all work as expected. Kohana does not limit your access to global data, but provides XSS filtering and sanity checking of all global data. 4.Cascading resources, modules, and inheritance. Controllers, models, libraries, helpers, and views can be loaded from any location within your system, application, or module paths. Configuration options are inherited and can by dynamically overwritten by each application. 5.No namespace conflicts. Class suffixes and prefixes are used to prevent namespace conflicts. 6.Auto-loading of classes. All classes in Kohana are automatically loaded by the framework, and never have to be manually included. 7.API consistency. Classes that require access to different protocols use 'drivers' to keep the the visible API completely consistent, even when the back-end changes. 8.Powerful event handler. Kohana events can transparently be: added, replaced, or even removed completely.