What is Konine?

Konine is the successor to Koseven, which was itself the successor to Kohana. It is an open source, object oriented MVC web framework built using PHP 8.4+ by a team of volunteers that aims to be swift, secure, and small.

Koseven was archived on April 14, 2026. Konine is an actively maintained continuation. Stability for existing applications comes first — PHP compatibility, security patches, and bug fixes always take priority — but the project also accepts feature requests and ships requested enhancements when they are built in a backwards-compatible way. The framework will be maintained until PHP 9 reaches end of life, or until the maintainers are no longer able to continue.

[!!] Konine is licensed under a BSD license, so you can legally use it for any kind of open source, commercial, or personal project.

What makes Konine great?

Anything can be extended using the unique filesystem design, little or no configuration is necessary, error handling helps locate the source of errors quickly, and debugging and profiling provide insight into the application.

To help secure your applications, tools for input validation, signed cookies, [form] and [HTML] generators are all included. The database layer provides protection against SQL injection. Of course, all official code is carefully written and reviewed for security.

Contribute to the Documentation

We are working very hard to provide complete documentation. To help improve the guide, please fork the repository, make your changes, and send a pull request. If you are not familiar with Git, you can also submit a feature request (requires registration).

Unofficial Documentation

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