Kerkness.ca » kohana php mvc wordpress http://www.kerkness.ca flexing my kerkness, among other things Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:12:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 Kohana and Wordpress playing together http://www.kerkness.ca/kohana-and-wordpress-playing-together/ http://www.kerkness.ca/kohana-and-wordpress-playing-together/#comments Wed, 13 May 2009 22:15:27 +0000 Kerk http://www.kerkness.ca/?p=502 I’ve recently developed a crush on Kohana, a PHP5 framework that uses an MVC architecture. For many years I have been using my own framework and have never found anything which I liked better until now. I find Kohana impressive because it uses strict PHP5 OOP, has a  powerful event handler and can be easily extended.  It is also small and not bloated which was one of the reasons why I’ve never adobted the larger PHP frameworks such as Zend or PEAR.

Building Wordpress Plugins using Kohana

The other PHP framework which I have to also admit having a crush on is Wordpress. While Wordpress is the complete opposite of something like Kohana, it’s still a very powerful and popular framework for building sites. I often find myself having to build a web site for someone else to manage and maintain.  Wordpress is great for this because out of the box it has a lot of features that your basic webmaster is looking for and it has a large community that can provide support ( something I don’t like doing ). The only downside to building a web site in Wordpress (IMHO) is that when it comes to building custom plugins the process is simply not OOP.

In order to bridge these two worlds and make my life a little easier I have created the Kohana for Wordpress plugin. Hopefully this plugin will be useful to some people.

More details and download the plugin here.

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