Switching.
I’m switching. No, not to a Mac (already did that sometime in early 2000). I’m switching from
CodeIgniter to
Kohana. Why? A few reasons, really. Kohana was branched from CI and refactored to be pure PHP 5 OOP; no legacy PHP 4 code to be found. It also features a less restrictive input and routing system (to wit: mixing paths and query strings really
is okay!) and a very good ORM layer (something that I had found CI to be somewhat lacking in) — I still love writing pure SQL, especially for expensive queries, but the ability to quickly find a single record or save some data from a POST is gold. Kohana also (optionally) comes bundled with a few really great libraries, including HTMLPurifier, Swift, and Markdown, as well as a great prefab authentication layer. The framework is also heavily community-driven, with commits happening around the clock. I highly recommend you developer-types check out Kohana and evaluate it for yourself; it’s worth it.