PHP

What is PHP?

PHP is a server-side scripting language built for the web. It runs on the server, generates HTML, and sends it to the browser. It powers a huge slice of the internet, including WordPress, which alone runs a large share of all websites.

The language has a reputation that lags behind its present. Early PHP was loose and easy to write badly, and that history sticks. Modern PHP, version 8 and up, is a different animal, with proper typing, fast performance, and frameworks like Laravel and Symfony that bring real structure to how applications are built. The just-in-time compiler made recent versions genuinely quick. A content-heavy marketing site running on WordPress, or a custom Laravel backend serving an API, are both squarely in PHP's lane.

Against Node.js, the split is often about ecosystem and history rather than raw capability. PHP has decades of mature tooling and the largest CMS ecosystem on the web. Node lets a team share one language across front and back end. Neither is the obvious winner. The right call depends on the project, the team, and what is already running.

PHP at Dallonses

We work with PHP where it makes sense, and a lot of the real web still runs on it. WordPress sites, Laravel applications, existing systems a client already depends on. Pretending PHP is dead would be dishonest, because the maintained, modern version of it ships serious products every day.

Our web development work meets a project where it is. When a client arrives with a PHP codebase, we improve it rather than insist on a rewrite that serves nobody. When PHP is the right choice for something new, usually because of WordPress or a team that knows it well, we build it properly with current standards and tooling. The language is a tool. How it is used decides everything, and that part is on us.

Got a PHP project that needs to move faster or scale further? Let's take a look.

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