SKULITECH ERP -> LARAVEL 13 CONVERSION VALIDATION
Date: 2026-08-07

Conversion approach:
- Laravel 13 front controller and routing layer.
- Compatibility-first execution of the preserved Core PHP business workflows.
- Existing UI assets preserved.
- Existing MySQL schema preserved byte-for-byte.
- Native Eloquent model foundation added for principal entities.

Validation completed:
- Laravel-layer PHP files syntax checked: 34, errors: 0
- Preserved legacy PHP files syntax checked: 246, errors: 0
- Module PHP pages in route manifest: 169
- Missing manifested module pages: 0
- Critical Admissions workflow present: YES
- Critical Academics/Registration workflow present: YES
- Critical Exams workflow present: YES
- Critical Finance/Cashbook workflows present: YES
- Critical Procurement workflow present: YES
- Critical HR/Payroll workflow present: YES
- Critical ILO workflow present: YES
- Critical Student Portal workflow present: YES
- Change-password workflow present: YES
- Bootstrap/CSS/JS assets preserved in public/assets: YES
- Database schema SHA-256 preserved exactly: YES
  21233af6ecf2dddfcdf209ad744c9c53f9b1fa54c989620ad461cf565c5cbca3
- composer.json/package.json/route manifest JSON validation: PASS

Runtime note:
The build environment did not have Composer installed and outbound package downloads were unavailable,
so vendor/ is intentionally not bundled. Run Composer on the deployment machine:
  composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader
  php artisan key:generate
  php artisan optimize

For an existing Skulitech database, configure .env to point to it and DO NOT re-import the schema.
For a blank database, use phpMyAdmin with database/schema/college_erp_current.sql or run:
  php artisan skulitech:install-schema --force

Important architecture note:
This package prioritizes functional parity. Existing workflows are preserved under legacy/ and executed
through Laravel routing. It does not falsely claim that all 169 pages have already been manually rewritten
as Eloquent/Blade implementations. They can now be refactored module-by-module without changing user-facing
URLs or the production database contract.
