Apidemia

Incremental PHP migration for legacy platforms

Apidemia is a web development company that works mainly on PHP. It has focused on the PHP ecosystem since 2005, building with Zend Framework and later with Laminas and Mezzio. The company calls its work enterprise-level services made simple, and it is an official Laminas commercial vendor. Its contracting entities are in Delaware, in the United States, and in Romania.

Migrating aging PHP systems

The core service moves older PHP platforms onto a modern base. The company says it migrates incrementally, keeping a client's system running throughout, with first results expected in four to six weeks. Its engineers have worked with every generation of PHP, and the firm says it can move a platform from legacy PHP to PHP 8 with no downtime.

Platforms the company has worked on

The company lists older versions of Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, Magento, OpenCart and PrestaShop, along with frameworks and applications such as Zend Framework 1, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, phpBB, vBulletin, SugarCRM and vtiger CRM. It also takes on custom applications written in-house over ten or fifteen years, which it says make up much of its migration work. Apigility and Laminas API tools are moved to Dotkernel API.

Framework moves to Mezzio and Laminas

Framework work covers migration from Zend Framework versions, Zend Expressive, Symfony or Laravel into Mezzio and Laminas. The company notes that Laminas MVC is retiring upstream, so a move to a headless design now avoids having to make the change twice.

APIs, audits and open source

Apidemia develops, documents, deploys and maintains web applications, APIs and microservices on the Mezzio microframework and Laminas components. It offers consulting and technical audits on how to use and integrate those components. The company created Dotkernel in 2008, and version 3 is now a collection of PSR-7 middleware applications built on Mezzio and Laminas.

How the work is delivered

The firm says it delivers work with AI coding agents under human review, and that the cost of that review is reflected in its prices. Most of its developers are Zend Certified Engineers, and it uses tools such as Composer, Behat, PHPUnit, Psalm, Git, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis and Atlassian Jira.