An honest review of your legacy PHP, Laravel, ecommerce or CMS platform
Before you sign off on the expensive rebuild a consultancy is pushing, get an independent read on the code you already have. Senior engineers assess security, maintainability and the real upgrade path for PHP, Laravel, Magento, WooCommerce, WordPress, Drupal and custom stacks — and tell you plainly whether to keep, fix or replace.
The old way
An 'audit' that always ends in a quote for a rebuild
The Cipher way
A keep / fix / replace verdict from engineers with no rebuild to sell
The code, the platform, and the honest path forward
A structured review of your legacy codebase and ecommerce/CMS platform — evidence, not a sales pitch.
Codebase health
Architecture, framework and PHP version currency, dependency risk, test coverage and the real cost of continuing to maintain what you have.
Security & data
Known CVEs in your framework and plugins, injection and auth weaknesses, PII handling and payment flows — the issues that actually get exploited.
Ecommerce & CMS platform fit
Whether your Magento, WooCommerce, WordPress, Drupal or custom platform still fits the business — and what an upgrade path looks like versus a costly replatform.
Upgrade & modernization path
A staged path: PHP and framework upgrades, targeted refactoring, and where AI-assisted modernization can compress months of work — instead of a big-bang rewrite.
How it works
A fixed-scope review, on your terms
01
Repository access
You grant read-only access to the repository and, where useful, a staging environment. Access is scoped and revocable.
02
Structured review
Senior engineers review code health, security, platform fit and upgrade path — with static analysis plus hands-on reading of the code that matters.
03
Keep / fix / replace verdict
A clear, evidence-based verdict with findings ranked by impact and effort — not a quote for a rebuild dressed up as an audit.
04
You decide
Implement with your own team or agency, or engage us. The report is yours either way. No lock-in.
Questions teams ask about legacy PHP and Laravel reviews
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Find out what your legacy platform actually needs
A fixed-price, independent review of your PHP, Laravel, ecommerce or CMS codebase — with a keep / fix / replace verdict and a staged roadmap you own.
No rebuild agenda
Most legacy systems are fixable — we say so when they are
Senior engineers, hands on the code
Not a junior with a checklist — a real read of your codebase
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