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PHP Development in St Davids

PHP work for St Davids 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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Working in St Davids

Wales

St Davids is the smallest city in Britain, with a commercial base of a few dozen tourism and hospitality businesses serving coastal visitors, and we will say plainly that most services on this site are larger than the local market needs.

Simple booking and payment systems for very small hospitality and tourism operators on the Pembrokeshire coast.

Sectors we work with in St Davids

  • Tourism & Heritage
  • Hospitality
  • Agriculture
  • Marine
  • Retail

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 St Davids 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

  1. Step 1

    Free consultation

    A 30-minute call to understand the problem. You keep the written summary either way.

  2. Step 2

    Proposal

    Scope, timeline and a fixed price, in writing, before anything starts.

  3. Step 3

    Build

    Short cycles with regular check-ins, so you see progress rather than hear about it.

  4. Step 4

    Launch and support

    We handle the go-live and stay available afterwards.

PHP Development in St Davids — 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 Pembrokeshire?
Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout Wales, including St Davids and the surrounding Pembrokeshire area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
What kind of St Davids businesses do you usually work with?
Simple booking and payment systems for very small hospitality and tourism operators on the Pembrokeshire coast. Beyond that we work across Tourism & Heritage, Hospitality, Agriculture, Marine and Retail.
Do you cover the areas around St Davids?
Yes — we work throughout Wales, including Swansea, Cardiff. St Davids is an urban area of roughly 1,600+, and we take on work across the wider Pembrokeshire region rather than the city boundary alone.

Talk to us about PHP Development in St Davids

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

Or reach us directly

07707 771599admin@asionis.com

Leicester, United Kingdom