Modernize Legacy PHP.
Without Losing What Works.
Kanetic-x is Kansoft's AI-driven framework for transforming monolithic PHP applications, Laravel 4 codebases, WordPress installations, and Symfony 1/2 systems into modern API-first architectures with Laravel 11, headless CMS, and React/Vue frontends.
Composer Audit Complete
187K LOC · 47 packages · 12 deprecated
Laravel 11 Architecture Plan
API-first · Headless CMS · React frontend
Laravel 4 → 11 Conversion
69% auto-migrated · PHP 8.3 strict types
Test Generation + Security Scan
Pest test suites + Snyk vulnerability scan
PHP 5.x is end-of-life. Laravel 4 is unsupported. WordPress sites accumulate plugin debt. Symfony 1/2 apps hang on by tribal knowledge. The codebase that shipped fast in 2014 now blocks every new feature.
PHP 5.x / 7.x End-of-Life
PHP 5.6 EOL in 2018. PHP 7.4 EOL in 2022. No security patches. Hosting providers are dropping support. Compliance audits flag it. Every day on EOL PHP is accumulating risk.
No Type Safety
Plain PHP catches bugs in production. PHP 8.3 with strict types + PHPStan or Psalm catches them at commit time. The difference compounds across years of maintenance.
Server-Rendered Lock-In
Blade or Smarty templates tightly coupled to controllers and models. Adding a mobile app requires rebuilding the entire output layer. Modern API-first architectures decouple this.
WordPress Plugin Sprawl
Production WordPress sites carry 30–80 plugins, each with its own update cycle, security history, and compatibility quirks. Maintenance becomes plugin-juggling instead of feature delivery.
No API Layer
Mobile apps, SPAs, third-party integrations — all blocked when the legacy PHP system can only render HTML. Bolt-on REST endpoints become technical debt the moment they're added.
Performance Ceiling
PHP 5.x to 8.3 represents a 3–4× performance improvement on the same workload. Modern PHP-FPM tuning, OPCache, and JIT (PHP 8) close the gap with Node.js and Python — but only if you upgrade.
Most "PHP modernization" projects either get scoped as "upgrade PHP only" (misses the architecture problem) or "rewrite from scratch" (kills momentum). Kanetic-x takes the middle path — modernize incrementally with API-first decomposition.
Each phase uses PHP-specific tooling — Rector for automated refactoring, PHPStan for static analysis, Pest for test generation, Composer for dependency intelligence.
Discover
Audit the codebase, dependencies, and runtime environment. Identify deprecation cliffs and security gaps.
Design
Recommend target architecture — Laravel 11, headless CMS, microservices — based on application shape and scale.
Transform
Rector-driven automated refactoring. Laravel 4 → 11 upgrade. WordPress → headless. Strict types added throughout.
Validate
Pest test generation, behavioural parity tests, security scans, performance benchmarks.
Kanetic-x covers the full spectrum from PHP version upgrades to full API-first architecture transformation.
Laravel 4/5/6 → Laravel 11
Major version upgrade with Rector-driven refactoring. Routes, controllers, Eloquent, queues, jobs — all updated to current Laravel patterns. Strict types added throughout.
WordPress → Headless CMS
Replace 50+ plugin WordPress sites with Strapi, Sanity, or Directus + a Next.js / React frontend. Editorial workflows preserved; technical debt eliminated.
Symfony 1/2 → Symfony 7
Multi-version Symfony upgrade with sf-rector rules. ORM migration (Propel → Doctrine), templating modernization, dependency injection refactor.
PHP 5.x / 7.x → PHP 8.3
Standalone version upgrade — Rector-driven syntax modernization, strict typing throughout, JIT-friendly patterns. 3× performance gain on most workloads.
Server-Rendered → API-First
Decouple PHP backend from Blade/Smarty templates. Expose RESTful or GraphQL APIs. Build a modern React or Vue frontend that consumes them.
Monolith → Microservices
Decompose a single Laravel monolith into bounded-context services. Strangler-fig migration with API gateway routing. Domain-driven service boundaries.
A real-world example: a WordPress content site running 47 plugins on PHP 7.4, transformed into a Strapi headless CMS with a Next.js frontend powered by PHP 8.3 + Laravel 11 APIs.
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