Pulling up Your Legacy App by its Bootstraps!
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to support an application built on an older framework. Refactoring isn't an easy option. The code is untested and nowhere near best practices or standards. In this session, we'll talk about strategies to incorporate modern PHP coding practices to add features and functionality and retiring the older code in pieces. We'll review specific examples and code from a real project where we bootstrapped a legacy application that needed a lot of help to become useful to its users and simpler for developers to maintain. We'll talk about strategies to leave the existing code in place until the new code is ready to replace it in whole or in pieces.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to support an application built on an older framework. Refactoring isn't an easy option. The code is untested and nowhere near best practices or standards. And development is happening in production. In this session, we'll talk about strategies to incorporate modern PHP coding practices to add features and functionality and retiring the older code in pieces.
We will talk about a project my team bootstrapped, a legacy CodeIgniter App. We created new models for the application, and we used dependency injection to load them into the old framework. This allowed people to use existing functionality until it could be replaced. We'll review specific examples and a little code from this project. We'll talk about strategies my team used to plan and implement this project. And we'll discuss tools that can modernize your legacy project.
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