How to Transform Legacy PHP Code into a Clean, Testable Architecture
Legacy PHP applications often suffer from spaghetti code, global state abuse, mixed concerns, and lack of tests; this guide outlines a step‑by‑step refactoring strategy—adding a testing safety net, introducing dependency injection, separating concerns with MVC/DDD, adopting repository patterns, and leveraging modern tools like Composer and PHPStan—to evolve them into maintainable, testable, and scalable backend systems.