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Modern PHP. AI-Assisted Delivery.
PHP Development Services
AI-augmented PHP development beyond the clichés: our engineers ship typed PHP 8 platforms, APIs, and commerce backends, and rescue legacy codebases, with 60 days of support after launch.
- 2010
- Operating since
- 9,000+
- Projects delivered
- 3,900+
- Apps published
- 120+
- AI products shipped
Trusted by the brands we build for
9,000+
Projects Delivered
3,900+
Apps Published
25+
Countries Served
What our PHP development services cover
Modern PHP engineering, from greenfield platforms to codebases everyone else declined to touch.
Web platforms and applications
Typed PHP 8 applications with strict types, dependency injection, and clean domain layers, built on frameworks chosen for the problem rather than the CV.
- ✓PHP 8.2+ with strict types
- ✓Framework or framework-free per fit
- ✓PSR-standard architecture
- ✓Composer-managed dependencies
APIs and integrations
REST and webhook-driven backends with versioned contracts, idempotent handlers, and the retry and queue discipline that integrations need to survive real vendors.
- ✓REST with OpenAPI specs
- ✓Webhook receivers with verification
- ✓Queued and idempotent processing
- ✓Rate limiting and auth
E-commerce and payments
Commerce backends on WooCommerce or custom builds, with payment flows engineered for idempotency, reconciliation, and the failure modes nobody demos.
- ✓WooCommerce and custom builds
- ✓Payment gateway integration
- ✓Idempotent order processing
- ✓Reconciliation and audit trails
Legacy PHP rescue
Untested PHP 5-era codebases brought to a maintainable present: character encoding fixed, dependencies current, tests around critical paths, deploys repeatable.
- ✓Version and dependency upgrades
- ✓Test coverage for critical paths
- ✓Security patch and hardening pass
- ✓CI/CD from zero
Performance and scaling
PHP under real load: opcache tuning, query and index work, caching layers, and horizontal scaling patterns, with load tests proving the numbers before launch.
- ✓OPcache and JIT configuration
- ✓Redis and application caching
- ✓Database index and query tuning
- ✓Load testing to stated targets
CMS and content engineering
WordPress and bespoke CMS work treated as engineering rather than plugin assembly, with our WordPress development services handling deep content-platform builds.
- ✓Custom themes and plugins
- ✓Headless CMS architectures
- ✓Editorial workflow tooling
- ✓Security hardening
What every engagement includes
Every PHP project ships with the following, agreed in writing before the first sprint begins.
Discovery workshop
A structured workshop maps your goals, users, and constraints into a scoped PHP roadmap with a fixed written quote before any sprint starts.
Named senior team
You get named, senior engineers with CVs you can review, not a rotating bench. The people in the kickoff are the people who ship.
Sprint demos every two weeks
Working builds are demoed live each cycle with CI running on every merge, so progress is visible in software, not slideware.
100% source-code ownership
All PHP source, configurations, designs, and documentation transfer to you on delivery with no licensing strings or vendor lock-in.
60 days of post-launch support
Engineering time is on standby for two months after go-live to triage defects, tune performance, and stabilise the release at no extra cost.
12 months of free updates
Compatibility updates, security patches, and framework upgrades ship free for a full year after handover.
insight
Where PHP is the right call
PHP remains a pragmatic choice for content platforms, commerce, and web products that need to ship fast and run cheap, especially where WordPress sits in the estate or PHP talent is what your region hires. Modern PHP with strict types is a genuinely different language from its reputation, and we build it that way.
For teams weighing backends, our Laravel development services page covers the framework in depth, our Node.js development services cover the JavaScript alternative, and our Python development services team handles the data-heavy cases where PHP is the wrong tool.
The stack behind our PHP builds
Default choices, stated with the reasoning.
Language and standards
PHP 8.2+ with strict types and readonly properties, PSR standards throughout, and static analysis (PHPStan at high levels) failing the build on regression.
Frameworks
Laravel for full product builds, Symfony components where a lighter assembly fits, Slim for lean APIs, chosen per project and documented in the architecture record.
Data and caching
MySQL and PostgreSQL with migrations under version control, Doctrine or Eloquent by project, Redis for cache and queues, and slow-query monitoring from launch.
Queues and async
Queue workers for anything slow or fragile (email, payments, exports) with retries, dead-letter handling, and horizontal scaling demonstrated under load.
Testing and quality
PHPUnit and Pest for units and integration, contract tests for APIs, and CI running static analysis and the full suite on every pull request.
AI features
LLM integrations over your content and data with streaming responses, plus AI-assisted code review across our PHP projects while senior engineers own every merge.
How a PHP project runs
Six stages with sign-off gates, shaped by twenty years of web delivery.
- 01
Discovery
Requirements, integrations, hosting constraints, and any legacy estate mapped in a workshop, ending in a fixed written quote and a stack recommendation with reasons.
✓ step 01 complete - 02
Architecture and data design
Domain model, database schema, and API contracts designed and reviewed first, because on PHP projects the schema decisions echo for years.
✓ step 02 complete - 03
Foundation sprint
Repository, CI, environments, and deployment pipeline scaffolded first, with static analysis and tests gating merges from the first commit.
✓ step 03 complete - 04
Sprint delivery
Two-week sprints with live demos. Test coverage grows with features, and performance budgets are checked on staging before each release.
✓ step 04 complete - 05
Hardening and launch
Security review against OWASP basics, load tests to stated targets, cache and OPcache tuning verified, and a staged cutover with rollback prepared.
✓ step 05 complete - 06
Support and handover
60 days of included support, 12 months of free updates, and documentation plus a maintained dependency roadmap so your team owns the platform cleanly.
✓ step 06 complete
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Why teams choose our PHP engineers
Modern PHP is an engineering discipline, and ours shows up in the codebase, not the buzzwords.
Strict types and static analysis
PHPStan at high levels with strict types is our default, which removes the null-and-string bug classes that gave PHP its reputation in the first place.
AI-augmented delivery
AI tooling accelerates tests, refactors, and review on our PHP projects while senior engineers own architecture and every merge to main.
Legacy rescue experience
We have stabilised PHP codebases others quoted rebuilds for, and we price the honest incremental path beside the rebuild so you can compare.
Performance proven under load
We ask for your traffic numbers and prove the platform holds them under load testing before launch, with headroom documented for your planning.
Security as a checklist, not a hope
Input handling, auth, dependency patching, and server hardening are gated in our pipeline, not promised in the proposal.
Track record since 2010
9,000+ projects delivered across 25+ countries, including commerce platforms and content estates at real scale.
PHP development FAQs
$ moxace launch --nowBuilding on PHP, or inheriting a legacy estate?
Tell us what you are starting from. We will scope the path forward honestly, including the option of not hiring us at all.
- 01
Share your idea
a quick call, no deck required
- 02
See the live demo
every screen, admin to user
- 03
Launch with source
full code, your brand, your servers
$ moxace launch --nowReady for PHP Done Properly?
Talk to our PHP team about a fixed-scope, AI-augmented build with 60 days of support and full source-code ownership.
- 01
Share your idea
a quick call, no deck required
- 02
See the live demo
every screen, admin to user
- 03
Launch with source
full code, your brand, your servers
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