We modernized a 15-year-old PHP app not with a rewrite, but with surgical refactors that improved queries, UX, and team onboarding.
How we ripped out a brittle third-party integration and replaced it with a unified, maintainable worker model.
How we built a future-proof responsive data table in a 15-year-old PHP app using Blade, Tailwind, and mobile-first design—without rewriting everything.
How we tamed file upload chaos in a legacy PHP app using sentinel values, path normalization, and conditional guards.
How extracting tangled breadcrumb logic into a single source of truth made a legacy PHP app more maintainable and testable.
How extracting a chaotic set of action buttons into a reusable dropdown component brought consistency and scalability to a legacy PHP app.
How consolidating messy file upload logic into a single helper class tamed chaos in a 15-year-old PHP codebase.
We introduced a service layer in a 15-year-old PHP app to untangle business logic, improve testing, and pave the way for future refactors.
How introducing a dedicated Permission model brought sanity to access control in a 15-year-old PHP monolith.
How I untangled a decade-old PHP monolith into a maintainable Laravel-inspired MVC architecture.
How introducing repositories and enums brought sanity to a decade-and-a-half-old PHP codebase.
How I brought order to a 15-year-old PHP monolith by introducing Laravel-inspired architecture and documentation.