# Laravel 5.0 → 11 Upgrade Progress

## Current State (Baseline)
- **Laravel Version**: 5.0.*
- **PHP Version**: 5.6.40 (container), 7.0 (production Dockerfile)
- **Database**: MySQL via PDO
- **Branch**: feature/laravel-upgrade

## Dependencies Audit

### Core Dependencies
- ✅ `laravel/framework`: 5.0.* → Need to upgrade incrementally
- ✅ `webpatser/laravel-uuid`: ^2.0 → Compatible through Laravel 8
- ⚠️ `netshell/paypal`: dev-master → May need replacement (outdated)
- ⚠️ `guzzlehttp/guzzle`: ~5.0 → Need to upgrade to ^7.0
- ✅ `google/recaptcha`: ~1.1 → Still maintained
- ⚠️ `spatie/laravel-analytics`: ^1.4 → Need to upgrade to ^5.0
- ✅ `league/flysystem-sftp`: ^1.0 → Upgrade to ^3.0 for Laravel 9+
- ✅ `aws/aws-sdk-php`: ~3.0 → Compatible

### Custom Middleware Found
- `CheckTeamStorePassword` - Custom team store authentication
- `IsAdmin` - Admin role check
- `IsUser` - Normal user role check
- `isAuthorized` - Custom authorization
- `Cors` - CORS handling

### Custom Code Patterns Detected
- ✅ `app/helpers.php` - Auto-loaded helper functions (minio_url, minio_image_url)
- ✅ Routes in `app/Http/routes.php` (Laravel 5.0 pattern)
- ⚠️ Controllers echoing HTML directly (needs refactoring)
- ⚠️ Boolean stored as strings ("TRUE"/"FALSE" in database)

## Upgrade Path

### Phase 1: Laravel 5.0 → 5.1 (Week 1)
- [ ] Update composer.json
- [ ] Test route compatibility
- [ ] Verify middleware still works
- [ ] Test authentication flow

### Phase 2: Laravel 5.1 → 5.5 LTS (Week 2)
- [ ] Move routes to `routes/web.php`
- [ ] Update exception handler
- [ ] Test all database queries
- [ ] Update validation rules

### Phase 3: PHP 7.0 → 7.4 & Laravel 5.5 → 6.x (Week 3)
- [ ] Update Dockerfile to PHP 7.4
- [ ] Remove mcrypt dependencies (if any encrypted data)
- [ ] Add string/array helpers package
- [ ] Test file uploads

### Phase 4: Laravel 6.x → 8.x (Week 4)
- [ ] Update factory syntax
- [ ] Test rate limiting
- [ ] Verify queue jobs

### Phase 5: PHP 8.0 & Laravel 8.x → 9.x (Week 5)
- [ ] Update Dockerfile to PHP 8.0
- [ ] Update Flysystem to v3 (affects MinIO config)
- [ ] Test query builder changes

### Phase 6: Laravel 9.x → 10.x (Week 6)
- [ ] Update to PHP 8.1
- [ ] Add type declarations where needed
- [ ] Test invokable validation rules

### Phase 7: Laravel 10.x → 11.x (Week 7)
- [ ] Update to PHP 8.2
- [ ] Test new application skeleton
- [ ] Verify all functionality

## Breaking Changes to Watch

### Database
- Boolean fields stored as strings ("TRUE"/"FALSE") - Need migration
- Direct DB facade usage throughout codebase

### Routes
- Controller array syntax in routes will be removed
- Need to update to standard controller@method or invokable

### Middleware
- Middleware signature changes in later versions
- CSRF token handling updates

### Views
- Blade syntax mostly compatible
- PHP in controllers (<?php echo) needs refactoring

### External Services
- PayPal integration (netshell/paypal) may need complete rewrite
- Google Analytics package needs major upgrade
- Screenshot Node.js service should remain compatible

## Rollback Plan
- Keep master branch untouched
- Tag current state: `git tag v5.0-baseline`
- Can revert entire branch if needed
- Parallel testing environment on port 8090

## Testing Checklist (After Each Upgrade)
- [ ] Homepage loads
- [ ] User registration/login works
- [ ] Sports category pages render
- [ ] Designer tool loads
- [ ] Pattern/clipart selection works
- [ ] Cart functionality
- [ ] Team store pages
- [ ] PayPal checkout flow
- [ ] Admin panel access
- [ ] Image serving from MinIO
- [ ] Screenshot generation service
- [ ] File uploads work

## Notes
- Current Composer version 1.x - may need to use `composer self-update --1` during transition
- AWS SDK already at 3.0, compatible with all Laravel versions
- Helper functions (minio_url) should remain compatible
- Fabric.js designer tool is front-end only, won't be affected

## Completed Steps
1. ✅ Created feature branch
2. ✅ Documented current state
3. ⏳ Ready to start first upgrade