The client is a Europe-based EdTech company in the e-learning and certifications space, running a platform built on the legacy PHP YII framework. They wanted to migrate the system to the modern PHP Laravel framework and, along the way, deliver a set of upgrades and new features across different modules modernising the codebase while keeping the live product running for their learners throughout.
Migrating a live e-learning platform off an ageing framework is delicate work - it has to modernise the codebase and add features without disrupting the learners and certifications that depend on it.
The platform ran on the legacy PHP YII framework, limiting maintainability and the pace of new development.
The client wanted not just a like-for-like migration to Laravel but upgrades and new features layered in across modules.
As an active e-learning and certifications platform, the migration couldn’t interrupt service to learners.
Each module had to be migrated, upgraded, and moved to production cleanly, replacing the old one without breaking dependencies.
Focaloid ran a focused, module-by-module migration from PHP YII to Laravel - modernising and enhancing each module before promoting it to production working hand-in-hand with the client’s product owner and QA team.
Migrated the legacy PHP YII application to the modern PHP Laravel framework, module by module.
Delivered the identified upgrades and new features within each module as part of the migration, rather than as a separate later phase.
Migrated and upgraded one module at a time, then moved it into production to replace the existing module keeping risk contained and the product live.
Worked closely with the client’s product owner and QA team throughout, with a focused team of two PHP developers.
Focaloid kept the engagement lean and low-risk, running agile sprints and migrating incrementally.
Ran the project in two-week agile sprints with the client’s product owner and QA team involved throughout.
Migrated and upgraded a single module per cycle to keep changes contained and reviewable.
Ported each module to Laravel while folding in the planned upgrades and new features.
Tested each module with the client’s QA team, then promoted it to production to replace the legacy version.
Legacy frameworks quietly tax everything every new feature takes longer, every fix is riskier, and good developers are harder to find for ageing tech. For an e-learning and certifications platform, that drag eventually reaches the learners. By migrating from PHP YII to Laravel module by module - modernising and enhancing as it went, and promoting each piece to production without disruption - Focaloid gave the client a current, maintainable codebase that’s faster and safer to build on, without ever taking the product offline. That’s modernisation that pays forward.
We migrate legacy applications to modern stacks like Laravel - module by module, with upgrades folded in and zero disruption to your live product - so your platform is faster, safer, and easier to build on.