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PHP to Laravel Migration · Norwich

PHP to Laravel Migration in Norwich

Rebuilding legacy PHP applications on Laravel for Norwich 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 Norwich?

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 Norwich

East of England

Norwich pairs a long-standing insurance sector with a large agricultural hinterland, and agri-food clients here often need systems that work offline and sync later, because rural connectivity is a real constraint.

Agri-food clients frequently need systems that work offline and sync later, alongside more conventional insurance and professional services work.

Sectors we work with in Norwich

  • Insurance & Financial Services
  • Agriculture & Food
  • Digital & Creative
  • Tourism

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 Norwich 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 Norwich — 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 Norfolk?
Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout East of England, including Norwich and the surrounding Norfolk area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
What kind of Norwich businesses do you usually work with?
Agri-food clients frequently need systems that work offline and sync later, alongside more conventional insurance and professional services work. Beyond that we work across Insurance & Financial Services, Agriculture & Food, Digital & Creative and Tourism.
Do you cover the areas around Norwich?
Yes — we work throughout East of England, including Cambridge, London. Norwich is an urban area of roughly 200,000+, and we take on work across the wider Norfolk region rather than the city boundary alone.

Talk to us about PHP to Laravel Migration in Norwich

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