If there is no wiki there could be inline comment. If not inline comments and those are written by your peers, dont join that team. Even there are inline comments you'll need to understand the architecture fast. Inline comments will help to understand a small context but not the whole For this try run the application with a debugger. And step through it. If you know debugging well in PHP you'll understand the workflow.
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