PHP to Laravel Migration · Canterbury
PHP to Laravel Migration in Canterbury
Rebuilding legacy PHP applications on Laravel for Canterbury organisations, where the difficulty is that there are no seams to cut along. Older PHP puts queries, business rules and HTML in the same file, so before anything can be moved incrementally, boundaries have to be found in code that was written without any.
Why this comes up
The problem
Business logic, database queries and markup share the same files, with no layer that can be extracted cleanly.
What you get
What we deliver
- Behaviour documented from the running application rather than inferred from code
- A strangler approach set up, so both applications serve traffic during transition
- Data access separated first, since this is usually the most tangled part
- Routes migrated incrementally with the old application handling the remainder
- Tests written as each area moves, because the original almost certainly has none
- Security issues addressed during the move rather than carried forward
Want this scoped for your business in Canterbury?
Thirty minutes, no charge, no sales script. You leave with a written summary of what php to laravel migration would actually involve — whether or not you use us.
Working in Canterbury
South East
Canterbury's population swings sharply with three university terms, so retail and hospitality systems here have to cope with demand that halves out of term rather than tapering.
Student-facing booking and ordering systems, and seasonal staffing tools for hospitality operators.
Sectors we work with in Canterbury
- Higher Education
- Tourism & Heritage
- Retail
- Healthcare
- Agriculture
What we work with
Technologies and platforms
- Laravel
- PHP
- MySQL
- PHPUnit
Who we work with
Industries we serve
- Professional services
- Manufacturing
- Education
- Healthcare
- Retail
Why us
Why Canterbury 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 to Laravel Migration in Canterbury — common questions
- Can this be done incrementally?
- Yes, by routing requests between the old and new applications while both run. It is more work than a single rewrite and considerably less risky, because each area is proven in production before the next begins rather than everything changing at once.
- Why start with data access?
- Because queries scattered through the code are what prevent any other separation. Bringing database access behind a defined layer makes the rest of the extraction possible, and it also surfaces the queries that have been quietly slow for years.
- Should behaviour be reproduced exactly?
- Mostly, with judgement. Long-lived applications accumulate behaviour that was a bug somebody adapted to, so the migration needs a decision on each oddity rather than faithful reproduction — but changing everything at once makes it impossible to tell what broke.
- What about security?
- It usually needs attention. Legacy PHP predating modern practice commonly builds queries by concatenation, stores passwords weakly and trusts input it should not, so the rewrite is the appropriate moment to correct all three rather than reimplementing them faithfully.
- Do you work with businesses across Kent?
- Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout South East, including Canterbury and the surrounding Kent area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
- What kind of Canterbury businesses do you usually work with?
- Student-facing booking and ordering systems, and seasonal staffing tools for hospitality operators. Beyond that we work across Higher Education, Tourism & Heritage, Retail, Healthcare and Agriculture.
- Do you cover the areas around Canterbury?
- Yes — we work throughout South East, including Chelmsford, Colchester, London. Canterbury is an urban area of roughly 160,000+, and we take on work across the wider Kent region rather than the city boundary alone.
Talk to us about PHP to Laravel Migration in Canterbury
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