Bridging the gap

How to deal with legacy and how to modernize it.

Architecture is recursive, you can design a nice class, component, application architecture...

Recreating a component doesn't give you any business value.

Prepared statements does't make anything secure.

Not everything at the same time

Assumed you have a global $db variable and every code relies on this. Then the first step is to change the dependency from the $db to a new introduced Class DB. This class has an dependency on our global $db. Now you have no dependency on the $db anymore except from DB and you can remove global $db.

Lazy initialization is a good idea. It is a detail of your implementation how to open the connection the database, because of this: private function connect(){...}

Why factories?

When you move the instantiation to a factory, you can add dependency classes to the parameters.

Switchable restful API

You habe an index.php every request comes in. so you can easily build something like:

<?php
  	$new = array(
    	'customer/new-feauture',
        'admin/customer/new-feauture'
    );
    
    if(in_array($requestedUrl, $new) {
    	require 'new-index.php';
    }

Transforming Data

In the end the "old world" is a backend data container.

Up to date ORMs e.g. Doctrine 2 separates the Data model from the data mapper to write to the database. It looks like:

<?php
	class User {} # No inheritance here!
    $user = new User();
    
    $orm->save($user);

It is not necessary that the data model knows about the data mapper, nor the old format of the informations.

Be careful with monolithic databases

Don't mix up all databases. One Service, one persistance-layer (whatever it looks like). Not one database and a lot of mixed tables which reference everything else.