On the Master Zend Framework site Matthew Setter has written up a new tutorial showing you how to migrate from Zend Expressive v1 to v2 with the help of some command line tooling support provided as a part of recent updates to the project.

In part one of this series, we started learning about the tooling support available for Zend Expressive, provided by Zend Expressive Tooling There, we learned how we can use the package to create, register, and deregister middleware, and scaffold new modules. But that's only half of what the package can do.

Here, in part two, let's learn about the other half, which removes some of the heavy lifting required when migrating Zend Expressive applications from version one to two.

He first defines some of the main differences between the two versions, a checklist of things the tooling will help you more automagically update. He talks more specifically about migration support, moving to "programatic pipelines" in Expressive v2 and scanning for deprecated error middleware. There's also information about locating the legacy request and response handling and how they're refactored to the newer format.