Escaping An Abandoned Framework

In the past few years, I've been involved with four teams who built their bread-and-butter applications on the classic Zend 1 framework. Each team realized the framework was no longer supported, and each has struggled to figure out their next step. On each of these projects, I've seen triumphs and tragedies. In this article, I want to share what I've learned about struggling to get out of an abandoned framework.