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Fat-Free vs Kohana: What are the differences?
What is Fat-Free? PHP micro-framework designed to help you build dynamic and robust Web applications - fast. Fat-Free Framework makes it easy to build entire Web sites in a jiffy. With the same power and brevity as modern Javascript toolkits and libraries, F3 helps you write better-looking and more reliable PHP programs.
What is Kohana? An elegant HMVC PHP5 framework. Kohana is an elegant, open source, and object oriented HMVC framework built using PHP5, by a team of volunteers. It aims to be swift, secure, and small.
Fat-Free and Kohana can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
"Open source" is the primary reason why developers consider Fat-Free over the competitors, whereas "Open source" was stated as the key factor in picking Kohana.
Fat-Free and Kohana are both open source tools. Fat-Free with 2.3K GitHub stars and 443 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Kohana with 1.61K GitHub stars and 464 GitHub forks.
Pros of Fat-Free
- Open source8
- Fast7
- Design pattern flexibility5
- Neat and Clean5
- API4
- SQL AND NOSQL ORM4
- 1 FILE3
- Simple3
- Quickly develop2
Pros of Kohana
- Open source4
- Efficient and lightweight3
- Cascading filesystem3
- Easy to understand PHP framework2
- Extensible2
- A business opportunity1
