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Porting legacy PHP apps: Rewrite, refactor, refine

This is the second article in the eight-part series “Porting legacy PHP apps”. In this session we will explore available options for breathing new life into our legacy application. Fasten your seat belts as we continue our journey after the jump.

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Porting legacy PHP apps: Spotting legacy apps

This is the first article in the eight-part series “Porting legacy PHP apps”. Throughout the duration of this series we will be speaking about PHP functions and language features, a little bit about XHTML and CSS, and also about client-side scripting.

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Porting legacy PHP apps ~ The Series

While I have been blogging for a few years now with varying spare time, this is the first time that I feel the need to publish an article series.

Introducing “Porting legacy PHP apps”, an eight part series of how-to’s, rules and recommendations, and a few bits and pieces of good advice to be published in the next weeks, with the first part of the series debuting this week. The term “legacy” in the title refers to code developed for PHP when PHP version 3 was common on most servers, and PHP4 was right around the corner, mostly used by “early adopters”. Wikipedia of course offers a definition of legacy code for us to read, and you will probably discover a few of those common criteria in this series.

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Marenkay.com is the home of Daniel S. Reichenbach, an application developer, father, gamer, and IT nerd.

In his blog Daniel deals with common and uncommon issues of application development, development processes and application deployment. As certified nerd, a bit of gaming in the mix can't hurt.

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