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Yii to Laravel

Everything about moving Yii1 and Yii2 applications to Laravel and Vue: architecture, auth, models, cost, and the honest tradeoffs.

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Migrating Yii2 to Laravel: the complete guide
Yii to Laravel · 10 min read

Migrating Yii2 to Laravel: the complete guide

How to move a Yii2 (or Yii1) application to Laravel and Vue without a big-bang rewrite: assess the codebase, run both ap...

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Running Yii and Laravel side by side on one domain
Yii to Laravel · 7 min read

Running Yii and Laravel side by side on one domain

The setup that makes a phased Yii to Laravel migration possible: nginx routing by path, one database, a signed cookie th...

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Yii ActiveRecord to Eloquent: a side-by-side translation
Yii to Laravel · 7 min read

Yii ActiveRecord to Eloquent: a side-by-side translation

Relations, scopes, behaviors, validation, events, and queries: what each Yii ActiveRecord idiom becomes in Eloquent, wit...

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Verifying Yii password hashes in Laravel (no forced resets)
Yii to Laravel · 6 min read

Verifying Yii password hashes in Laravel (no forced resets)

A custom Laravel hasher that accepts Yii2 bcrypt, Yii1 CPasswordHelper, and the md5/sha1 hashes older Yii1 apps used, th...

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