Nightmare Before (Last) Christmas - PHP Advent

- (planet-php) - 5 months, 1 weeks ago...

A little over a year ago I was plunged into a nightmare world. I had accepted a new job as the lone PHP developer at a relatively small business, and when I finally got my hands on the code, I realized I’d gotten myself into a giant mess. While I’m happy at my job today, my first months were filled with disbelief, horror, anguish, doubt, and despair as I began to dig into the legacy codebase I had inherited. Things were a little dicey those first few months. I’d seen really ba...