In this three-part DigitalOcean series, we will be covering all the essentials a developer should be familiar with in order to start building web applications using the PHP5 Kohana framework. We will begin with going over some of the basics, continuing through the key concepts and modules after installing the framework.

In this first piece of a three-part DigitalOcean series on Kohana, we will be covering all the essentials a developer should be familiar with in order to start building web applications using Kohana. We’ll begin with going over some of the basics, continuing through the key concepts and modules after installing the framework.

In this DigitalOcean article, we will be jumping in on understanding how Kohana is designed to work along with its most important parts. We will go over the HMVC (Hierarchical Model View Controller) pattern and learn how to create one of each - and get them to work together!

In this DigitalOcean article, following our previous ones on installing and getting started with Kohana, we’ll see how to prepare a VPS to deploy a Kohana based PHP web application - using Debian 7 / Ubuntu 13 as our host operating system.