Refactoring Burden During PHP Migrations

7/10 High

Refactoring accounts for 35.6% of migration effort, particularly burdensome for larger organizations (45.4%) who must rewrite significant portions of code when upgrading PHP versions or addressing deprecated features.

PHP
Category
migration
Workaround
partial
Stage
migration
Freshness
persistent
Scope
language
Recurring
Yes
Buyer Type
team

Sources

Collection History

Query: “What are the most common pain points with PHP for developers in 2025?”4/8/2026

Refactoring (35.57%)... Larger organizations were far more likely to identify Refactoring as their biggest migration pain point at 45.39% of participants.

Created: 4/8/2026Updated: 4/8/2026