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Eight Lessons From a Nine-Month Framework Migration
From PHP 5.6 and MySQL to Symfony 8 and PostgreSQL — a production migration without a big-bang rewrite. Eight lessons from 488 commits, 4 bridge components, and one strangler fig that actually worked.
The Day We Deleted 12,000 Lines of Legacy Bridge Code
Eight coordinated commits, two hours, 129 files removed. The Strangler Fig bridge had done its job — now it was time to delete it. Here is the checklist we followed, the traps we avoided, and how we knew the bridge was ready to come down.
Loading ZF1 Classes on PHP 8.4
Zend Framework 1 was designed for PHP 5.2. Running it on PHP 8.4 requires a shim library, an autoloader bridge between PSR-0 and PSR-4, and module autoloaders for each legacy module. Here is the infrastructure that made ZF1 work on modern PHP.
Why We Migrated from Zend Framework 1 to Symfony 8 in 2026
Zend Framework 1 has been end-of-life since 2016. PHP 5.6 receives no security patches. But the application still worked — so why take the risk? The decision process behind migrating a production HR platform from ZF1 to Symfony 8.