Kohana Framework

So you think your Kohana v3 powered application is cool? Suddenly you encountered a page not found (HTTP 404 error) message where Kohana dumps the error messages in debug mode! It is already part of the daily web but yet, Kohana v3 has no native support...

“Kohana is an elegant HMVC PHP5 framework that provides a rich set of components for building web applications.” (kohanaframework.org).
I am a big fan of web application framework as they really do cut down on some of the development time. However they can be quite challenging to the newcomer. A few years ago I first started with CakePHP and then quickly moved to CodeIgnigter...

Before building the actual Twitter application I think it would be useful to go over the way the framework works by default. So right now we have a clean and working install. Let’s see how it works.
If you go to “http://localhost/” or “http://localhost/index.php” you should see a page that just says “hello, world!”. That is our default/index page. So what happens if you go to “http://localhost/index.php/hello/“? You will get an ugly exception that...

Kohana 3.X includes a powerful Object Relational Mapping (ORM) module that uses the active record pattern and database introspection to determine a model's column information. ORM is integrated tightly with the Validate library.
The ORM allows for manipulation and control of data within a database as though it was a PHP object. Once you define the relationships ORM allows you to pull data from your database, manipulate the data in any way you like and then save the result back...