Do you have a business project, a web platform, an e-Commerce site or a redesign? Whether on a fixed-price basis or using an agile method, TheCodingMachine knows how to adapt to your constraints and deliver your PHP project on time and within budget. Over 1000 projects delivered!
TheCodingMachine has extensive expertise in PHP, with more than 100 employees in France specialising in these technologies.
Since 2005, TheCodingMachine has been a recognised expert in PHP and Open Source in general. TheCodingMachine has grown with PHP over the last 20 years and has contributed to its development.
Some open-source contributions:
PHP is spreading throughout the enterprise. This technology is an advantageous replacement for more costly or ageing solutions such as Java or .Net. PHP also enables companies to maintain their independence from highly integrated solutions (ERP, for example).
PHP solutions are likely to become a permanent fixture in the landscape: they are quick to develop, simple to interface with, easy to deploy, low-maintenance and low-hosting. PHP is the ideal solution for a business application, a platform for partners or an e-Commerce site.
It’s no coincidence that PHP is the most frequently used backend language on the web. According to a study conducted by W3Techs in 2024, PHP is used as a server-side programming language on 76.2% of websites. PHP is also at the heart of some of the web’s most popular solutions:
Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, etc.
Magento (now Adobe eCommerce), Prestashop, Shopify, Etsy, Sylius, etc.
Facebook, Tumblr, Slack, etc.
Moodle, Mediawiki (Wikipedia page editor), etc.
Developing your application in PHP gives you access to a very large community of developers, making it easier to find internal or external developers. PHP is also a highly flexible programming language that can be used to cover almost all needs and interface with a wide range of technologies, including databases, web servers and applications.
PHP is flexible and can be used to create projects of all sizes, from small websites to large web applications and mobile applications. It is also scalable, thanks to frameworks such as Laravel and Symfony.
PHP was originally created by programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1993 and released in 1995. PHP was originally an abbreviation for Personal Home Page, but is now a recursive acronym for Hypertext Preprocessor.
What distinguishes PHP from scripting languages such as Javascript is that the code is executed on the server, generating the HTML, which is then sent to the client. The client only receives the result of the script, with no way of accessing the code that produced this result.
LAMP is the most common complete technology stack on the web. It was one of the first to be released and is the adaptable combination for all your projects.
LAMP includes :
PHP’s strength lies in its ability to adapt to any type of project. Today, PHP is often the obvious choice because a desired solution, such as WordPress, was itself developed in PHP. The same is true for frameworks associated with PHP such as Symfony or Laravel. However, if your project is a web platform where numerous exchanges are necessary between the front end (client side) and the back end (server side), then PHP is particularly relevant.
The two most widely used PHP frameworks are Laravel and Symfony. Laravel is particularly recommended for developing simple applications quickly, thanks to its broad ecosystem of turnkey solutions (e.g. Laravel Nova for developing a Back Office), while Symfony has built its reputation on its scalability and ability to run very large applications. Symfony is particularly popular in France, its country of origin, but less so in the rest of the world.
Historically, in the enterprise web, the main alternatives to PHP have been Java and .NET (based on C#), both of which are proprietary solutions from Oracle and Microsoft respectively.
In the consumer web, although it is not a language in itself, Node.Js is increasingly used instead of PHP (for back-end development in Javascript). Ruby and its Ruby On Rails framework have also had their moment in the spotlight (Twitter in particular).
Python, on the other hand, is used more for large-scale calculations and data processing.
According to a study conducted by W3Techs in 2024. PHP 7 is the most widely used version of the language, with 53.9% of websites using PHP on this version, while 31.2% use PHP 8, 14.8% use PHP 5 and 0.2% use PHP 4. Although it’s not necessarily necessary to have the latest version (PHP 8.3), we strongly recommend upgrading to PHP 8.1, as this is the oldest version still officially supported (and therefore secure).