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Journal
One field report a monthWhat I learn on real projects, written for whoever is looking for the answer at 2 a.m. No rehashed news, no opinion pieces.
Migration Migrating a PrestaShop 8 store to 9: what actually breaks
Symfony jumps from 4.4 to 6.4 and FrameworkBundleAdminController disappears. An inventory of what breaks, module by module, and of what doesn't move.
Security The flaws I find most often in bespoke modules
Three patterns come back in almost every audit of a made-to-order module. None of them is exotic, all of them are avoidable, and reading the code is enough to spot them.
Takeover Taking over a website abandoned by its provider
No access, no repository, no documentation. The audit method I apply before saying whether to repair or rebuild.
Field report One module for 1.7 through 9: usually a bad idea
Three Symfony versions, two PHP versions, one codebase. I tried it on my own modules — here is where the line falls between one branch and two.