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PHP is boring. That is the point.
It runs on every shared host in India, thousands of local developers can maintain it, and it has been getting quietly faster for a decade. For a business site, none of that is a compromise.
Short answer
PHP web development builds the server side of a website in PHP — either Core PHP for lean, fast sites, or a framework such as Laravel or CodeIgniter for larger applications. It remains the pragmatic choice for most Indian business sites because it runs on ordinary hosting, has an enormous local hiring pool, and PHP 8 is genuinely fast.
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01 The premise
The argument for boring technology.
Choosing a stack is not really a technical decision. It is a hiring and maintenance decision made years in advance. The right question is not which language is most elegant — it is who will be able to change this in three years, on what hosting, at what cost, if I am not available.
On those questions PHP wins comfortably for the kind of sites most Indian businesses need. It is installed on essentially every shared host in the country, so there is no infrastructure conversation. The hiring pool is enormous, so you are never held to ransom. And since PHP 7 the performance objection has largely evaporated: for a content and enquiry site, the database and the network are the bottleneck long before the language is.
It is not the right answer for everything. Real-time applications, heavy concurrent connections and some data-processing workloads suit other tools better, and I will say so rather than force the familiar choice. But those are a small minority of the projects I am actually asked about.
02 Comparison
Core PHP, Laravel or CodeIgniter?
All three are PHP. They differ in how much structure they impose and what that structure costs you in weight.
| Choice | When it is right |
|---|---|
| Core PHP | Marketing sites, brochure sites and lean applications. Nothing loads that the page does not use, deployment is a file copy, and hosting requirements are minimal. This site is built this way. |
| Laravel | Applications with real complexity — users, roles, queues, scheduled jobs, an API. The structure pays for itself past a certain size, and it is the most widely known PHP framework among Indian developers. |
| CodeIgniter | Lighter than Laravel, and the sensible choice when an existing system already uses it. A great deal of Indian business software runs on CodeIgniter, so taking one over is a common request. |
| WordPress | Technically PHP, but a different decision. Right when publishing volume and a familiar editor matter more than weight and control. |
03 Standards
What good PHP actually looks like.
The difference between PHP that ages well and PHP that becomes a liability is almost entirely in these habits.
Written into every build
- Prepared statements everywhere. Every database query parameterised. SQL injection is a solved problem and there is no excuse for it in new code.
- Output escaped where it is printed. Nothing user-supplied reaches the page unescaped. This is where most cross-site scripting comes from.
- Configuration outside the web root. Credentials in a file the browser can never request, not in a PHP file sitting next to the pages.
- A supported PHP version. Running on a current release, and written so that upgrading does not require a rewrite.
- Comments that explain why. Not what the line does — why it exists. That is the difference between maintainable and merely working.
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Tell me what the application has to do and how many people will use it. I will tell you whether it wants Core PHP, a framework or a CMS — and what each one costs you in maintenance later.
- A recommendation with reasoning, not a preference
- Fixed price agreed before work starts
- Runs on hosting you already have
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04 Legacy work
Legacy PHP: what I can take on.
A lot of Indian business software is older PHP that still runs the company. Most of it is worth keeping.
- PHP 5 to PHP 8 upgrades
- The most common request. Usually a fortnight of careful work rather than a rewrite, and it closes real security exposure.
- Undocumented systems
- Where the original developer is gone. I read it, document it, and give you an honest assessment before quoting anything.
- CodeIgniter applications
- Common in Indian CRM and ERP installs. Maintainable, extendable, and usually not worth replacing.
- Security hardening
- Injection, file upload handling, session management, and credentials moved out of the web root.
- The honest verdict
- Sometimes the answer is that maintaining it will cost more than replacing it. I will show you the reasoning rather than simply asserting it.
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Read more— Questions
PHP development — your questions.
Straight answers, including the ones that cost me work. If yours is not here, ask it — I reply the same day.
It is old, which is not the same thing. PHP 8 is actively developed, substantially faster than PHP 5, and runs a large share of the web. The reputation comes from a lot of badly written PHP existing, which is a consequence of its popularity rather than a property of the language.
Laravel earns its overhead once you have users, roles, background jobs and an API. Below that threshold it is structure you pay for and do not use. A marketing site or a lean enquiry-driven site is faster and simpler in Core PHP — this site is one.
Usually, and it is often urgent. Sites still running PHP 5 or early 7 are on unsupported versions with known vulnerabilities and no security patches. An upgrade is normally far cheaper than the rebuild people assume it will be.
Yes. A lot of Indian business software — CRMs, ERPs, internal tools — runs on CodeIgniter, and most of it is perfectly maintainable. I can extend, fix and upgrade rather than pushing a replacement you do not need.
Ordinary shared hosting is genuinely sufficient for most business sites, which is a large part of the appeal. Applications with heavier load want a VPS. I will tell you which one you actually need rather than sizing upwards by default.
The language is not the risk; the code is. Prepared statements, escaped output, credentials outside the web root, validated uploads and a supported version handle the overwhelming majority of real-world attacks. All of those are habits, and they are in every build.
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Tell me what the application has to do. You will get a stack recommendation with the reasoning attached — including the case where PHP is not the right answer.
- Core PHP, Laravel or CodeIgniter as suits
- Runs on ordinary Indian hosting
- Legacy upgrades, not automatic rewrites
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