Week 066 — Found Page Works Again

The refactor keeps creating new surfaces to fix.

Week of February 23, 2026

Progress

Monday: the save item path through item.php still had gaps — data not making it through correctly between the page, API, and service layer. Several issues were found and fixed across the API, item.php, and the class layer.

Wednesday: the found page (found.php) was broken by the API changes and had to be fixed. That took most of the day.

By Friday, the found flow via found.php was working. But a new problem was visible: the item page itself was showing missing data — rewards, return method, and other fields not populating after load. There was also a broken reportSafe call, which turned out to be a missing function definition rather than a logic bug.

The Question That Appeared

The DTO/Service/Repo refactor has been the main thread for six weeks. The pattern promised cleaner code and easier maintenance. But right now it's mostly been producing surfaces to fix — more places where data can fail to flow correctly, more layers to trace when something is wrong. Maybe that changes once it's stable. But right now, the promise is ahead of the reality.

Next Week

Item page data loading, reportSafe, and closing out the remaining refactor gaps.