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PHP's reputation was formed in the era of copy-pasted scripts and has not been revisited since. What it means now is PHP 8 with real types, Composer, and Laravel or Symfony underneath— a JIT-compiled runtime, static analysis running at the strictest level in CI, and tooling that would be unrecognisable to anyone who last touched it in the mysql_query era.
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About PHP Development
PHP usually gets judged on code written fifteen years ago. The language moved on: PHP 8 brought union types, enums, readonly properties, fibers and a JIT, Composer settled dependency management long before that, and the PSR standards mean code from two different teams reads broadly the same. Static analysis catches most of what people still remember as PHP's runtime surprises, before anything reaches a server.
The reasons teams keep picking it are mostly not about the language. Hosting is cheap and available everywhere, from a shared plan to a container on any cloud, which changes the economics of a small product. Hiring is easier than for the fashionable stacks, and the pool includes people who have kept production systems running for years rather than months.
Then there is the installed base. WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, Drupal and a very long tail of in-house systems are all PHP, so a PHP team can integrate with what you already run instead of replacing it first. We build in Laravel when delivery speed matters and its opinions are worth accepting, in Symfony when the system will outlive several teams, and we work on CodeIgniter and older codebases that nobody else wants to open — usually the ones doing the most important job in the business.
Core PHP Services
REST and GraphQL endpoints with versioning, rate limits, and authentication enforced in middleware instead of repeated in every controller. Integrations are written on the assumption that the other side will be slow, down, or will send you the same webhook twice.
Applications shaped around your domain rather than bent out of a template. Typed models, a schema decided before the screens, and Composer packages chosen for how well they are maintained rather than how many stars they have.
PHP on the server, React or Vue in the browser, and one team accountable for both sides of the API contract. Inertia or a plain JSON API depending on whether the interface genuinely needs its own build pipeline.
Laravel when delivery speed matters and its conventions are worth accepting. Symfony when the system will outlive several teams and its parts need to stay replaceable. We tell you which one we would choose and why before the first sprint, not after it.
Queues, workers and scheduled jobs — the half of a PHP application that never shows up in a demo. Failed jobs retry with backoff and land somewhere a human will see them, and anything that touches money is idempotent.
Someone still owns the thing after launch. PHP and framework versions kept current, dependency advisories acted on rather than filed, slow queries found before a user reports them, and a written record of what changed and when.
Application Development
Storefronts on Magento or WooCommerce, or built from scratch when the platform tax outweighs what it gives you. Checkout gets most of the attention: payment handling that tolerates a retry, stock that does not oversell, and a catalogue that stays fast as the SKU count climbs.
WordPress, Drupal and custom PHP back ends, including headless setups where editors keep the admin they know and the front end is rendered separately. Workflow, roles and revision history designed around the people who actually publish.
Feeds, messaging and notifications, where the real decisions are fan-out on write versus on read, keeping timelines consistent, and having moderation tooling in place before you need it rather than the week after.
Internal systems — ERP, CRM, operations tooling — where the permission model is the product. Roles, delegation and record-level access enforced in one layer, with an audit trail that can answer who changed what and when.
The PHP side of a mobile product: token authentication, push, sync endpoints, and an API versioned so that a copy of the app nobody has updated in a year does not break when the server moves on.
Installable web apps served from a PHP back end, with a service worker that has an actual cache-invalidation plan and an offline mode with defined rules for what happens when two versions of the truth meet.
AMP pages where the traffic justifies the constraint, built to validate against the spec rather than approximately. Worth saying plainly: for most sites a well-cached PHP page now does the same job, and we will say so when that is the case.
PHP Frameworks
Most PHP work lands in Laravel or Symfony, and for good reasons that differ. The rest of this list is here because real codebases are already written in it, and someone has to keep those running.
The default, and usually right
Laravel gets a product to users quickly because queues, scheduling, auth, mail, storage and testing are already there and already agreed on. The cost is its opinions: Eloquent encourages patterns that need discipline once the domain gets complicated. Worth paying most of the time.
Small, old, still everywhere
A small framework that stays out of the way, and the reason a lot of working business software exists at all. Most of our CodeIgniter work is maintenance and upgrades on version 3 codebases — which is honest work, and someone has to do it well.
Built to outlive its team
Symfony asks for more up front — explicit configuration, dependency injection, a stricter separation between domain and framework — and gives back a codebase that can be reasoned about in five years. It is what we reach for when the system will outlast several teams, and its components turn up in half the PHP ecosystem anyway.
Zend Framework, renamed
Zend Framework became Laminas when the project moved to the Linux Foundation, which is worth knowing if you are reading old documentation. Modular, verbose, and still running a lot of long-lived corporate systems that were built when it was the obvious choice.
Fast, and heavy on generation
Yii is quick to stand up, with strong caching, role-based access built in and Gii generating a lot of the boilerplate. The generated code is a starting point, not a design, and treating it as the latter is how Yii projects get unpleasant.
A router and not much else
Sometimes a service only needs routing, PSR-7 and a container. Slim keeps the surface small, which matters for an internal API or a sidecar that should be readable in one sitting and cheap to keep patched.
Convention over configuration
CakePHP leans hard on convention — naming, associations, scaffolding — which is fast when you follow it and awkward when your schema was designed before the framework arrived. Good for admin-heavy applications, and it has aged better than its reputation suggests.
Compiled, for the rare case
Phalcon ships as a compiled extension, so framework overhead almost disappears. The trade is real: you need control of the server to install it, and the hosting and hiring pool narrows immediately. Worth it when request overhead is genuinely your bottleneck, which is less often than people assume.
PHP Benefits
Something like 77% of the websites whose server-side language can be detected run PHP. That is not nostalgia keeping it there — the reasons are mostly economic and operational.
PHP is free, and more to the point it runs on the cheapest hosting there is. A small product can launch on a shared plan and move to containers later without rewriting anything. For plenty of businesses that difference is what decides whether the project happens at all.
The same codebase runs on Linux, Windows or macOS, behind Apache, nginx or a modern PHP application server, on a shared host or in a container. There is no runtime you have to talk an ops team into, and very little that will not host it.
PHP developers are easier to find and cost less to hire than equivalents in the fashionable stacks, and the pool includes people who have kept systems running for a decade. Handing a PHP codebase to a different team later is a realistic option, which is not true of every language we enjoy.
Someone junior can be productive in PHP within weeks. That is a real advantage and also the origin of its reputation, because the same accessibility produced a great deal of bad code in the 2000s. Types, static analysis and review close that gap now; the language does not have to.
PHP is shared-nothing by design: every request starts clean, so scaling out is largely a matter of adding processes behind a load balancer. State lives in Redis or the database rather than in the runtime, which removes a whole category of problem other stacks spend effort managing.
Composer and Packagist, plus frameworks that have survived long enough to matter — Laravel, Symfony, and the Symfony components sitting underneath much of the rest. Most of what a business application needs already exists, and is looked after by people who are still around.
Why Hire Aryavos
Two-week cycles that end with something deployed to an environment you can reach. You see the application running long before launch, which is while changing your mind is still cheap.
A lot of PHP work starts inside someone else's codebase, with no tests, no documentation and an author who left years ago. Reading it, mapping it and changing it without breaking the business is a distinct skill, and it is one this work forces you to develop.
Dedicated team, time and materials, or fixed scope. Which one fits depends on how well defined the work already is, and we will say so when a fixed price would only be a guess dressed up as a quote.
Round-the-clock cover where the system warrants it, business-hours cover where it does not, and response windows written into the agreement rather than implied by a badge on a website.
PHPUnit or Pest suites, static analysis in the pipeline, and a coding standard enforced automatically instead of argued about in review. All of it lives in the repository, so you can run it yourself and see what it says.
The repository, deployment scripts, environment configuration and runbooks are yours from the first commit. If you decide to take the work in-house or somewhere else, nothing about how we set it up should make that difficult.
Have a PHP codebase, or thinking about starting one?
Send the repository, or just the problem · We will tell you what we would do first
Development Process
Five stages, each ending with something you can read, open or run. Nothing exotic in it — the value is that it happens in the same order every time, so you always know where the project is.
Step 01 · Deciding what not to build
We work out what the system has to do, what it has to integrate with, and which constraints are real rather than assumed. The framework decision gets made here with reasons attached — Laravel for delivery speed, Symfony for longevity, or staying on what you already run when a rewrite would not pay for itself.
Key Deliverables
Step 02 · Screens and schema, decided together
Wireframes and clickable prototypes, and beside them the database design those screens imply. Settling the interface without the schema is how you end up with a page that needs six queries to render and a table that has to be reshaped in month four.
Key Deliverables
Step 03 · PSR standards, enforced by CI
Two-week cycles, PSR-12 formatting applied automatically rather than debated, static analysis at a level that genuinely fails the build, and tests on the paths that matter. Migrations are written to run forwards and back, and queues, permissions and scheduled work get built early instead of bolted on at the end.
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Step 04 · Rehearsed, including the rollback
Functional, load and security passes on a staging environment close enough to production to be worth trusting. Releases go out with a rehearsed rollback and, where it matters, behind a feature flag, so exposure can be turned down without another deploy.
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Step 05 · Versions, patches, slow queries
PHP and framework versions do not stand still, and an unsupported PHP release is a security problem with a countdown attached. We keep versions current, act on advisories rather than filing them, watch the slow-query log, and keep a slot in each cycle for whatever everyone has quietly learned to work around.
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Industries We Serve
These are sectors where PHP is already the incumbent, which usually means the job is integrating with something that exists rather than starting from an empty repository.
08Verticals served
Storefronts, marketplaces and B2B portals, much of it on Magento or WooCommerce because that is what the sector already runs. Checkout, stock accuracy and catalogue performance take most of the effort.
Accounts, leaderboards, purchases and live-ops tooling behind the game client. PHP handles the account and commerce side while the realtime layer stays where it belongs.
Course delivery, assessment and cohort management, often alongside Moodle or a student records system that is not going anywhere.
Patient records, scheduling and telemedicine portals, designed to support HIPAA obligations — audit trails, consent and access rules scoped per engagement.
Ordering, dispatch and restaurant back-office systems, where traffic arrives in two spikes a day and the kitchen printer counts as a real integration.
Fleet and shipment tracking, warehouse operations and supply-chain visibility — usually talking to carrier APIs and EDI feeds that predate the web team by a decade.
Loan servicing, financial dashboards and customer portals that integrate with core systems nobody is allowed to change, with the access control and audit records that implies.
Payroll, recruitment and self-service portals. Permissions are the hard part — who may see whose salary is reliably the most argued-over requirement in the build.
Frequently Asked Questions
The questions engineering leads tend to ask before committing a project to PHP. If yours is not here, put it to our PHP engineers.
There is no best one, but there is usually an obvious one. Laravel if you need to be in front of users quickly and are happy to accept its conventions — queues, scheduling, auth, mail and testing already fit together, so the team does not spend its first month choosing libraries. Symfony if the system will outlive several teams: explicit configuration, dependency injection and a clean line between your domain and the framework cost more at the start and cost much less over five years. If your developers are mostly early in their careers, Laravel's defaults and documentation will carry them further. And if you are already on CodeIgniter or Laminas and it works, the right answer is often to modernise in place rather than rewrite.
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