In a five part series on the symfony blog, Fabien Potencier relates a call to the expert, a refactoring story where he helped out a fellow symfony developer with their first application.

Some time ago, Vince, a seasoned PHP developer, asked me to have a look at his very first symfony project, a product store. As the mistakes he did were quite common, I decided to tell you the story of this refactoring session in the hope you will learn as much as Vince did

Here's links to each of the five parts:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5