Convert legacy PHP to Laravel — automatically
Legacy PHP is the most common codebase businesses are afraid to touch: procedural scripts, raw mysqli queries, HTML tangled into business logic, and no tests. A manual rewrite to a modern framework routinely takes months and risks breaking behavior nobody documented.
CodeShift migrates PHP to Laravel 11 automatically. Its AI engine reads your whole repository first, maps every include and dependency, then rewrites file-by-file in dependency order into idiomatic Laravel — Eloquent models, controllers, migrations, form requests, and Blade or Inertia (React) views. Every rewritten file is then verified against the original for behavior parity and repaired automatically if the check fails.
Target stack: Laravel 11 + Eloquent + Inertia (React)
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What actually gets modernized
Procedural scripts & includes
Controllers, services and routes
Raw mysqli / mysql_* queries
Eloquent models & query builder
Mixed HTML + PHP templates
Blade or Inertia (React) views
Hand-rolled auth & sessions
Laravel auth scaffolding
No schema management
Versioned database migrations
Untested spaghetti
Auto-generated test suite
How the migration engine works
Analyze
The whole repository is scanned: framework and version detected, every dependency mapped, risks flagged before a line is touched.
Plan
A dependency-aware migration plan orders files leaves-first, so everything a file imports is migrated before the file itself.
Rewrite
Each file is restructured into modern, idiomatic architecture — streamed live, with already-migrated symbols kept consistent across files.
Verify
Every file passes structural checks and an adversarial behavior-parity review; failures are repaired automatically before you see them.
PHP to Laravel: frequently asked questions
Can AI really convert a legacy PHP site to Laravel?+
Yes. CodeShift doesn't do line-by-line translation — it analyzes the entire codebase, plans the target architecture, and restructures your PHP into idiomatic Laravel 11 with Eloquent, controllers, and views. Each file is verified for behavior parity against the original and automatically repaired if verification fails.
What versions of PHP can be migrated?+
Anything from PHP 5.x upward, including procedural code with mysql_*/mysqli calls, mixed HTML and logic, and custom frameworks. The engine detects the version and patterns automatically during analysis.
Does the migrated Laravel app keep my database?+
Yes — your schema is preserved and expressed as versioned Laravel migrations, with raw queries rewritten to Eloquent models and the query builder on top of the same data.
How long does a PHP to Laravel migration take?+
Hours, not months. A typical small-to-medium codebase is analyzed, rewritten, verified and documented in a single run; you review a side-by-side diff of every file before shipping.
Other supported migrations
Ready to modernize your Legacy PHP codebase?
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