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PHP to Laravel Migration · Exeter

PHP to Laravel Migration in Exeter

Rebuilding legacy PHP applications on Laravel for Exeter 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 Exeter?

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.

Book a 30-minute call

Working in Exeter

South West

Exeter is the commercial centre for a very large rural catchment, so businesses here routinely serve customers spread across Devon rather than a compact urban area, and travel time is a real cost in every quote.

Field service scheduling and routing for businesses covering a wide rural patch, plus professional services systems.

Sectors we work with in Exeter

  • Higher Education
  • Professional Services
  • Healthcare
  • Retail
  • Environmental Science

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 Exeter 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 to Laravel Migration in Exeter — 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 Devon?
Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout South West, including Exeter and the surrounding Devon area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
What kind of Exeter businesses do you usually work with?
Field service scheduling and routing for businesses covering a wide rural patch, plus professional services systems. Beyond that we work across Higher Education, Professional Services, Healthcare, Retail and Environmental Science.
Do you cover the areas around Exeter?
Yes — we work throughout South West, including Plymouth, Truro, Bristol. Exeter is an urban area of roughly 130,000+, and we take on work across the wider Devon region rather than the city boundary alone.

Talk to us about PHP to Laravel Migration in Exeter

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