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Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way to Transfer Legacy PHP Code to a Modern Framework?

3 months 2 weeks ago
Slashdot reader rzack writes: Since 1999, I've written a huge amount of PHP code, for dozens of applications and websites. Most of it has been continually updated, and remains active and in-production, in one form or another. Here's the thing. It's all hand-written using vi, even to this day. Is there any benefit to migrating this codebase to a more modern PHP framework, like Laravel? And is there an easy and minimally intrusive way this can be done en-masse, across dozens of applications and websites? Or at this point should I just stick with vi? Share your thoughts and suggestions in the comments. What's the best way to transfer legacy PHP code to a modern framework?

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