Migrating a 2014 PHP/MongoDB CMS to a 2026 stack
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Idae Legacy migrates a 2014 PHP, Node.js and MongoDB CMS to PHP 8.2 and a current MongoDB driver while preserving the original interface. The project updates Smarty templates and checks rendering and aggregation behavior in CI against an isolated MongoDB instance. Apache/PHP and Socket.IO run together in a supervised Docker image.
flowchart TD P["idea / needs"] --> S["Idae Legacy"] S --> A["PHP 5.6 -> PHP 8.2"] S --> B["modern MongoDB driver"] S --> C["Phase 2 · CRUD + sessions + database internals"] S --> D["one supervised image · Apache/PHP + Socket.IO"] S --> E["CI · Smarty rendering and isolated MongoDB"]
Idae Legacy moves a 2014 PHP 5.6, Node.js and MongoDB CMS to PHP 8.2 while keeping the original interface. Apache/PHP and Socket.IO share a supervised Docker image. The migration updates Smarty for PHP 8 and checks rendering and MongoDB aggregation behavior in CI.