Hire PHP developers

PHP is our second-largest practice after React and our oldest by some distance — the allocations in our records start in 2018. Since 2022 our PHP developers have logged roughly 94,700 hours across 24 client products, and the work is mostly the unglamorous kind: systems that already earn money and have to keep earning. Six of those products are on Laravel, one large one is on CakePHP, and the rest are older PHP that nobody would choose today but somebody has to run.

Across 24 PHP-family roles since 2021 we have made 12 hires at a median of 26 days from opening the role to a signed offer, out of 1,239 candidates. Thirteen of those roles were opened in 2025 or later, so this is a market we are actively in rather than one we used to be in. When a PHP developer is already rolling off one of our engagements you start in days; when we recruit, plan for about a month.

This is the stack where the usual outsourcing failure is most expensive. An inherited PHP system keeps its business rules in places no document mentions — a cron job, a trigger, a controller written in 2016 — and every team that rotates through re-discovers them by breaking something in production. What you are buying is people who have already made those mistakes on your codebase. Our longest-running PHP engagements have had the same teams on them since 2022, through PHP version upgrades and framework rewrites.

Four shapes, in rough order of how often they arrive. Taking over a system whose original team has gone, and getting it to a state where changes are safe. Moving off an end-of-life PHP version. Rewriting a core piece inside a framework rather than rebuilding the product — we are doing exactly that on a travel marketplace right now. And steady feature work on systems we already run, which is where most of those 94,700 hours actually went.

We would, and often do. Migration is worth it when you are still building features and the framework is what slows you down; it is not worth it when the system is stable, the change rate is low, and the only real problem is that the code is unfashionable. One of our largest PHP products has been on CakePHP since we picked it up and is still on CakePHP, because moving it would have cost more than it returned. If you are hiring specifically for new Laravel development, the hire Laravel developers page covers that practice on its own.

PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. It is an open source server-side scripting language which is widely used for web development. It supports many databases like MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, Solid, PostgreSQL, generic ODBC etc.

PEAR is a framework and repository for reusable PHP components. PEAR stands for PHP Extension and Application Repository. It contains all types of PHP code snippets and libraries. It also provides a command line interface to install 'packages' automatically.

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Here are some of the most popular Content Management Systems (CMS) built with PHP:

• WordPress: WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP & MySQL. It includes a plug-in architecture and template system. It is mostly connected with blogging but supports another kind of web content, containing more traditional mailing lists and forums, media displays, and online stores.
• Joomla: Joomla is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) for distributing web content, created by Open Source Matters, Inc. It is based on a model-view-controller web application framework that can be used independently of the CMS.
• Magento: Magento is an open source E-trade programming, made by Varien Inc., which is valuable for online business. It has a flexible measured design and is versatile with many control alternatives that are useful for clients. Magento utilizes E-trade stage which offers organization extreme E-business arrangements and extensive support network.
• Drupal: Drupal is a CMS platform developed in PHP and distributed under the GNU (General Public License).

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Laravel has diverse features such as template engine, MVC architecture support, top security, artisan tool, database migration system and etc. These Laravel advanced features make it better than other PHP frameworks. It provides benchmarked and feature-packed solutions for high-end web application development.