Hi!

I tried migrating our old code base to Agavi too.  What I did was I
created an alias to Agavi, so that only http://example.org/agavi would
use the new framework.  I synced the templates so that the front-ends
on both frameworks were exactly the same from the user's point of
view.  The storage backend (XML) and sessions (yepp, this is possible)
was unified too.

I left much of the old code intact because I realized, "hey, why fix
something that isn't broken?" =)

Regards,

[ simon.cpu ]


On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Michael McHugh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Company I work for licenses the source code of a legacy system that has been 
> drip feeding updates over the last few years and I have finally been given 
> approval to migrate it to the Agavi framework (license allows us to change 
> any code).
>
> I'm curious on any advice, tips, tricks or thoughts any others may have from 
> experience doing a similar thing. A couple of my ideas on this are below..
>
> 1/ The idea is to initially wrap the application in the framework and slowly 
> refactor/extract parts of the original code into Agavi. I was thinking of 
> using a default route that passed to a module/action pair of something like 
> Legacy/Default that simply called the appropriate legacy script.
>
> 2/ Legacy code has significant use of globals and $_POST, $_GET, $_REQUEST 
> and $_COOKIE variables...<shudders> so in factories.xml would need to set the 
> 'unset_input' parameter to false on the AgaviWebRequest object. Until this 
> was addressed anyway.
>
> And just to vent because I am the only coder on this project - this legacy 
> beast uses include('someFunction.inc') as if it were equivalent to 
> someFunction()  ;)
>
> Regards,
> Michael (@AlchemyCS)
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