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OlivierR68

I was in this situation not long ago, with a homemade framework with no documentation, a lot of variable abreviatated names (like $v, $d, $c) and method, no autoload (lot of require) and other old stuff.

What i did was just to dive into it. Even if i didn't like it and i was often irked at how the framework was made. It get better the longer you are in it, you also learn a lot about the language in general (php in my case), and you should and should NOT code.