# kohana/kohana

Basic application with official modules included

Repository: https://github.com/kohana/kohana
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kohana
Homepage: http://kohanaframework.org
Language: PHP
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2016-08-06T13:28:18+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6245, "days_push": 3679, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1534, forks 415 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:59.683186+00:00)

## What it is
Kohana is an elegant, object-oriented HMVC web framework for PHP 5, built as a community fork of CodeIgniter. This repository is the basic application skeleton with the official modules included.

## Use cases
- build a php web application with an hmvc framework
- maintain a legacy kohana 3.3 codebase
- start a lightweight modular php5 project
- use kohana official modules like orm and userguide
- migrate an old codeigniter app to kohana

## When to choose
- you are maintaining or extending an existing Kohana application
- you need a small, fast PHP5 HMVC framework for a legacy environment

## When to avoid
- you are starting a new PHP project - the framework is deprecated since 2016
- you need modern PHP 7/8 support, security updates, or an active community
- you want a framework with a large ecosystem of maintained packages

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: abandoned
- function: web-framework, routing, templating, orm
- domain: web-development, backend, developer-tools
- platform: php, cross-platform
- tags: hmvc, php5, deprecated, codeigniter-fork, modular, web-server

## Member repositories
- kohana/kohana (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:59.683186+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:31:12.604331+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/kohana/kohana (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:59.683186+00:00, sha 4c55d77a1a81)
  - homepage: http://kohanaframework.org (fetched 2026-08-29T11:33:06.330508+00:00, sha bc99f9a7604e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.