PHP Development · Edinburgh
PHP Development in Edinburgh
PHP work for Edinburgh organisations, which in practice is often maintaining something built years ago by someone unavailable. The pressing question with inherited PHP is usually the version it runs on: unsupported releases receive no security fixes, and a great deal of business-critical code is sitting on them.
Why this comes up
The problem
A system the business depends on runs on old PHP, the original developer has gone, and every quote to replace it exceeds what the system is nominally worth.
What you get
What we deliver
- The runtime version established and a path to a supported one
- The existing code understood and documented before anything is changed
- Tests added around critical behaviour, so changes can be made with confidence
- Security review of input handling, which older code routinely gets wrong
- Incremental modernisation where a rewrite is not justified
- Modern practice applied to new work — typing, dependency management, version control
Want this scoped for your business in Edinburgh?
Thirty minutes, no charge, no sales script. You leave with a written summary of what php development would actually involve — whether or not you use us.
Working in Edinburgh
Scotland
Edinburgh is a financial capital with a strong data science community, and the festival economy creates extreme seasonal load patterns that booking and ticketing systems here have to survive every August.
Financial services and data-led work, plus seasonal systems that have to absorb enormous August load without falling over.
Sectors we work with in Edinburgh
- Financial Services
- Technology
- Tourism
- Higher Education
- Data Science
What we work with
Technologies and platforms
- PHP
- MySQL
- Composer
- PHPUnit
Who we work with
Industries we serve
- Professional services
- Retail
- Manufacturing
- Education
- Logistics
Why us
Why Edinburgh businesses choose Asionis
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise
How we work
- Step 1
Free consultation
A 30-minute call to understand the problem. You keep the written summary either way.
- Step 2
Proposal
Scope, timeline and a fixed price, in writing, before anything starts.
- Step 3
Build
Short cycles with regular check-ins, so you see progress rather than hear about it.
- Step 4
Launch and support
We handle the go-live and stay available afterwards.
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PHP Development in Edinburgh — common questions
- Is PHP still worth using?
- Yes, and the modern language is not what its reputation describes. It is fast, supports proper typing, has excellent tooling and dependency management, and hosting is cheaper and more available than for any alternative. Objections usually concern code written long ago rather than current practice.
- What should we do with a legacy system?
- Understand it before deciding. Systems dismissed as unmaintainable frequently contain years of accumulated business rules nobody has written down, and a rewrite rediscovers them expensively. Getting to a supported version and adding tests is often better value than replacement.
- How serious is an old PHP version?
- It is a security matter. Versions past their support window get no fixes for newly discovered vulnerabilities, and hosts eventually force an upgrade at a time of their choosing. Planning the move is considerably cheaper than doing it under a deadline you did not set.
- Rewrite or repair?
- Repair, unless the system genuinely cannot do what the business now needs. Rewrites take longer than estimated, and during them you maintain two systems while delivering no new value. Incremental modernisation is slower to describe and usually faster to benefit from.
- Do you work with businesses across City of Edinburgh?
- Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout Scotland, including Edinburgh and the surrounding City of Edinburgh area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
- What kind of Edinburgh businesses do you usually work with?
- Financial services and data-led work, plus seasonal systems that have to absorb enormous August load without falling over. Beyond that we work across Financial Services, Technology, Tourism, Higher Education and Data Science.
- Do you cover the areas around Edinburgh?
- Yes — we work throughout Scotland, including Glasgow. Edinburgh is an urban area of roughly 540,000+, and we take on work across the wider City of Edinburgh region rather than the city boundary alone.
Talk to us about PHP Development in Edinburgh
A 30-minute call with someone who would actually work on it. No sales script, no obligation.
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise