Hugo Hamon

Hugo Hamon

Bringing the Symfony Components into your Legacy Code

Hugo Hamon is a PHP and Symfony fan who works with PHP since 2003. After five years of professional PHP web development in web agencies for famous french customers, he now works as a consultant and head of training at SensioLabs. On his free time, Hugo contributes to the Symfony2 project (source code and documentation) and gets involved in the french PHP association as an organization member. Hugo also wrote and contributed to french and english books related to PHP and the Symfony framework.

Bringing the Symfony Components into your Legacy Code

The same question comes every time when dealing with legacy code: shall we maintain or rewrite the whole application? Tough decision to take! Maintaining the legacy code or rewriting it from scratch may involve lots of money. Another solution would be to migrate the code from step to step by introducing new valuable pieces of software like Drupal does for their upcoming major release. This talk will explain how you can take benefit from famous Symfony standalone components to empower and modernize your legacy code. Reusing well known and tested Symfony components will also guarantee a smooth learning curve and the support from the biggest PHP developers community.