PHP Development Company

Our Longest Client Relationships Run on PHP

HeyTutor. Nine years. Laravel. Still in production, still maintained by our team until we handed off to their in-house CTO in 2023.

MyFlyRight. Ten years. Laravel + React. Over €100M recovered for EU air passengers. No major rewrites in a decade because the architecture was right from the start.

PropertyRate. Multi-year engagement. Kohana→Laravel migration on a 50-state appraisal management platform without downtime.

Float Financial. $190M funded FinTech. Laravel backend powering PCI-certified payment card programs for 6,000+ Canadian businesses.

These are not PHP demo projects. They are production systems that process real money, serve real users, and have run for years. PHP is the language. Laravel is the framework. The engineering is what makes them last.

EltexSoft is a PHP development company. 35-50 senior engineers. Headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal. Engineering team in Ukraine. Founded in 2015.

What We Build With PHP

Laravel Applications

Laravel is our default PHP framework. Every new PHP project starts here unless there is a specific technical reason to choose otherwise.

We build REST APIs with versioning, authentication (Sanctum, Passport), and rate limiting. Queue workers with Horizon for background processing. Admin panels with Nova or Filament. Multi-tenant SaaS with per-tenant database isolation. Subscription billing with Cashier. File storage with S3. Caching with Redis.

The Laravel ecosystem is the strongest in PHP: Forge for server provisioning, Vapor for serverless deployment, Telescope for debugging, Pint for code style, and Pest for testing. We use all of them in production.

Legacy PHP Migration

This is the work that most agencies avoid because it is tedious, risky, and requires understanding someone else’s decisions before you can change them.

PropertyRate ran on Kohana, a PHP framework that reached end-of-life in 2017. No security patches. No community. No path forward. We migrated the entire platform to Laravel: database schema modernization, API restructuring, third-party integration rewiring, and deployment cutover. The migration happened on a system processing thousands of appraisal orders daily. No downtime.

We have migrated codebases from Kohana, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, Zend Framework, Symfony 2.x, and plain procedural PHP to modern Laravel. The pattern is always the same: audit, plan, migrate incrementally, test exhaustively, cut over cleanly.

WordPress as API Layer

Free Stuff Finder’s mobile apps (2M+ installs, #2 coupon app in the US) consume a WordPress REST API for deal content. WordPress serves as the CMS and API layer, pushing curated offers to native iOS and Android clients.

This is not “WordPress development” in the agency sense. This is using WordPress as a headless CMS backend for a production mobile application. Custom endpoints, structured content types, performance-optimized queries, and caching that handles seasonal traffic spikes (Black Friday, holiday campaigns).

PHP API Development

REST APIs that power mobile apps, SPAs, and third-party integrations. Laravel or Lumen for full-featured APIs. Slim for lightweight microservices. OpenAPI specification for documentation. OAuth 2.0 for authentication. Rate limiting, request validation, and structured error responses.

PHP in 2026

PHP powers over 75% of the web. Laravel consistently ranks among the most popular backend frameworks globally. PHP 8.3 and 8.4 brought significant language improvements: enums, fibers, typed properties, readonly classes, intersection types, and performance gains that closed the gap with compiled languages for most web workloads.

The narrative that “PHP is dead” comes from people who last wrote PHP in 2012. Modern PHP with strict types, PSR standards, and Laravel conventions is a productive, maintainable, and performant language for web application development. Our 9-year track record with production PHP systems is the proof.

What It Costs

Senior PHP developer (dedicated): $50-99/hr. A full-time dedicated developer costs $8,000-$16,000/month.

By project type:

Laravel web application MVP: $30K-$80K, 3-5 months.

Legacy PHP migration (Kohana/CodeIgniter to Laravel): $50K-$150K, 4-8 months.

REST API for mobile apps: $20K-$60K, 2-4 months.

Multi-tenant SaaS backend: $60K-$180K, 5-10 months.

WordPress headless CMS/API: $15K-$40K, 1-3 months.

Compare to US PHP agencies at $100-$200/hr. Our $50-99/hr rate with senior-only engineers and multi-year engagement stability delivers 40-60% lower total cost.

Who We Are

EltexSoft is a boutique PHP development company. 35-50 senior engineers. Headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal. Engineering team in Ukraine. Founded in 2015.

PHP clients include PropertyRate (50-state AMC), HeyTutor (9-year EdTech marketplace), MyFlyRight (€100M+ recovered), Float Financial, and Free Stuff Finder (2M+ installs). We also build with Laravel, React, Django, iOS, and Android.

5.0 Clutch rating across 30+ verified reviews. 200+ five-star Upwork reviews. Top Rated Plus and Expert-Vetted agency status (top 1%). Average client engagement: 3+ years.

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