PHP Development · Salford
PHP Development in Salford
PHP work for Salford 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
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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 Salford
North West
Salford hosts MediaCity and the production companies clustered around it, so the local bar for anything customer-facing is set by people who make broadcast output for a living.
Production and media workflow tools, and design-led builds for a market with unusually high visual standards.
Sectors we work with in Salford
- Media & Broadcasting
- Digital & Creative
- Higher Education
- Logistics
- Construction
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 Salford 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 Salford — 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 Greater Manchester?
- Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout North West, including Salford and the surrounding Greater Manchester area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
- What kind of Salford businesses do you usually work with?
- Production and media workflow tools, and design-led builds for a market with unusually high visual standards. Beyond that we work across Media & Broadcasting, Digital & Creative, Higher Education, Logistics and Construction.
- Do you cover the areas around Salford?
- Yes — we work throughout North West, including Manchester, Liverpool, Preston. Salford is an urban area of roughly 270,000+, and we take on work across the wider Greater Manchester region rather than the city boundary alone.
Talk to us about PHP Development in Salford
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