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At Deazy we provide more than just expert PHP developers.
Our experienced UK team oversees each project delivery ensuring everything runs smoothly. With decades of experience across dozens of industries, no project is too ambitious for us.

“Deazy’s developers play a vital role in the delivery of Orderbee. The flexibility of their teams and speedy onboarding process, allowed us to start adding value to our business quickly, free up in-house resources when we needed them, and continue delivering our new product alongside our client pipeline.”

“Deazy made the daunting task of changing our IT providers much simpler than expected. Deazy took the time to understand our business model and they continue to constructively collaborate with us. The way they structure their team provides clarity with excellent communication and delivery.”

Developer profiles


Antoni
Senior Developer Location: PolandAntoni is a senior PHP developer with 10 years of experience creating exciting, interactive and unique websites.

Aleksander
Certified Developer Location: UkraineAleksander is a PHP developer with 5 years experience working on web development projects. He enjoys challenging and exciting, short-term projects.

Szymon
Mobile Developer Location: PolandSzymon is a mobile developer with 10+ years experience working with a large variety of tech stacks, including React Native and Vue.
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Highstreet Fast Food Chain - Full Build
Fresh build of multi-region website and mobile applications that provide consumers with access to menus and ordering, a restaurant finder and unique promotional offers.

Consultancy Specialising in Organisational Change - Full Build
Fresh build of a platform to facilitate and manage custom workplace surveys, using question banks. The survey results were visualised by our design team to create intuitive displays.

Leading Car Manufacturer (Electric Vehicles) - Full Build
Fresh build of a website for a major European car manufacturer promoting EVs and hybrids, including a digital car catalogue, unique cost calculator and auto-populating vehicle data, as well as a CMS for the manufacturer to manage their catalogue.

European Automotive Scale-up - Support & Maintenance
Continuous improvement programme working on new feature development, scalability, localisation and bug fixing for a digital garage platform.


Weight Loss App - Full Build
Fresh build for a mobile app that helps users on their weight-loss journey, providing access to a diet and exercise plan with over 7 million downloads.


Leading Personal Fitness Brand (Middle East) - Hybrid Build
Fresh build of mobile application using community access to benchmark user fitness and drive individual progress, with optional features for competitive rewards.


UK Startup Simplifying Travel Booking - Team Augmentation
Team augmentation to help with technical support and the rebuilding of a platform aggregating popular journeys for crowdfunding.


Cutting Edge Used Car Marketplace - Full Build
Fresh build of a marketing website presenting exclusive car collections to customers across Europe.

Global Fishing Spot Marketplace - Full Build
Fresh build of a web and mobile platform allowing fishermen to book spots at any fishery across the UK, as well as tools for fishery management, including booking and availability.


Bespoke Cheese Subscription Company - Support & Maintenance
Support and continuous improvement of a mobile app for a cheese subscription company, with unique and stylised branding.


Iconic Global Soft Drink Brand - Continuous Improvement
Continuous improvement for a mobile app enabling consumers to 'mix' multiple soft drinks and create their own unique drink at fast food soft drinks dispensers.


Innovative Social Competition Platform - Full Build
Fresh build of a social media platform where creators and viewers participate in their favourite challenges to win rewards.

Dynamic Virtual Events and Conferences Platform - Full Build
Fresh build of a scalable platform enabling large conferences, of up to 10,000 participants, to run entirely virtually - includes doc sharing, breakout rooms, video streaming and chat.

Trade Union with 180,000+ Members - Full Build
Fresh build of an IOS and Android app for 180,000+ union members and additional CMS features for admins.

Independent UK Alcohol Awareness Charity - Full Build
Rebuild of an app which helps users reduce alcohol consumption and monitor progress. Additional build of a CMS platform allowing clients to personalise campaigns and new feature updates.

Independent UK Alcohol Awareness Charity - Code Review
Code review for an app which helps users reduce alcohol consumption and monitor progress and CMS to enable clients to have significant flexibility in pushing new campaigns and features.


International Fintech Empowering Business Owners - Full Build
Fresh build of 2 mobile apps, used by consumers and businesses, which turns their smartphones into an ATM and PoS terminal using a smart card.

UK Based Parental Support Charity - Full Build
Fresh build of web and mobile apps which support young families through raising children, including video calling, document and case management, and a reporting dashboard.

International Technology X Lifestyle Brand - Full Build
Fresh build of a website with an online quiz and subsequent custom PDF book, which helps users identify cooking needs, as well as create and purchase a bespoke cookbook.

Discount Household Utility Bills Brand - Full Build
Fresh build of a geo-location based game where students compete to create the largest 'huddle' in any one location.

Production Music Label with 17,000+ Users - Full Build
Rebuild of a web platform used by music label customers to search, download and stream tracks, using catalogues which are created, uploaded and managed by composers.

Ancestry App For the Arab World - Full Build
Fresh build of an app which allows users to explore their ancestry based on specific input criteria.

Disruptive Internet Provider- Full Build
Fresh build of an app which enables independent consumers, as well as an in-house sales team, to demonstrate service availability and how the business compares to local competition.

UK High Street Mortgage Lender - Team Augmentation
Team augmentation to aid payment gateway integration and creation of financial reporting tools. Project included creating a dashboard used by in-house analysts and external account managers.



Multinational Engineering and Construction Company - Full Build
Fresh build of a bespoke resource management tool for high value construction projects. The tool integrates with key enterprise systems and provides a web application for business users.

Specialised Global Trade Association - Full Build
Fresh build of an international campaign website focused around clean energy, including a separate private members area.

Leading Micro and Small Business Accountants - Full Build
Fresh build of a bespoke self-serve accounting system, which allows businesses to manage their paperwork, and automate key parts of the bookkeeping process.

3D Scanning App for Online Shopping - Full Build
Fresh build of native mobile apps, and a chrome extension, which allows customers to use a 3D AI scanner to measure body size, and get clothing size recommendations.

Rental Marketplace (High Growth Startup) - Continuous Improvement
Support and continuous improvement of a large property rental platform. Included an admin and 2 client portals, mobile apps, as well as integration with over 40 microservices and data feeds.


UK's Leading Order and Pay Solution - Team Augmentation
Team augmentation supporting the UK’s leading order and pay app’s maintenance and integration with a variety of PoS, CRMs and guest services.


Fitness App - Code Review
Code review of an app with 500,000+ users, which support users wanting to get fit, by providing training programs, targets and rewards.


Fitness App - Full Build
Creation of app with 500,000+ users, which supports users wanting to get fit by providing training programs, targets and rewards.

Global Golf Equipment Provider - Full Build
Fresh build proof of concept and MVP for an app used to track the movement of golf balls on a practice putting green, predict ball trajectory and the strength of putts using a phone’s camera.

Motoring Service Provider (12m+ Clients) - Support & Maintenance
Support and continuous improvement of a B2B mobile application, and creation of 4 alternative whitelabeled versions, which uses ‘black box’ vehicle technology to display key driving metrics.


Motoring Service Provider (12m+ Clients) - Continuous Improvement
Support and continuous improvement of mobile applications used nationwide by sales teams, to sell insurance products directly to consumers.


Premier League Football Club - Support and Maintenance
Support and continuous improvement for a Premier League Football Club’s website with 3m+ visitors per month.


Global Automotive Manufacturer - Continuous Improvement
Fresh build and continuous improvement of a sales website for a global automotive company.



Sustainable Online Gardening Merchant - Full Build
Fresh build of Shopify site for sustainable gardening and plant merchants, selling over 1,500 plant products.


Pet Care and Grooming Brand - Hybrid Build
Shopify site rebuild and rebranding for a leading pet care merchant, creation of subscription options, bespoke bundles and a unique pet care calculator for products and dosage.


Contemporary Lingerie Boutique - Hybrid Build
Rebuild of the rebranded Shopify site for a contemporary lingerie merchant, allowing customers to browse and purchase products, and add items to their wishlist.


Premium Soft Drinks Merchant - Hybrid Build
Fresh build of a Shopify Plus site, created for the launch of a new premium soda drink, which allows users to make one-off purchases or create a subscription.


Leading Sustainable Waste Management Company - Hybrid Build
Creation of an integration solution which allows access to an education stool microsite via a pre-existing Episerver DXP Platform.


Responsible Water Utility Company - Hybrid Build
Build and integration of a customisable calculator feature into an existing Episerver site.


International Law Firm - Full Build
Fresh build of a serveless mobile app, which allows global law firms to recruit partners, capture key performance metrics for candidates, facilitate chats and sign contracts.

Innovative Automation Solutions Provider - Full Build
Fresh build of enterprise web app for workspace employees to manage membership types, workspace sites, inventory, members, billing, support and reporting.

Nationwide Flexible Office Space Provider - Full Build
Fresh build of a mobile app for a high-tech workspace, allowing members to virtually access their space, book meeting rooms and raise support tickets.

Nationwide Flexible Office Space Provider - Full Build
Fresh build of a responsive web app allowing non-members of a shared workspace to book meeting rooms across multiple sites.

Nationwide Flexible Office Space Provider - Full Build
A portal for flexible workspace members to manage their membership, team, payments, connect with other members, and book meeting rooms.

Anti-Smoking App - Code Review
Code review for aApp helping 500,000+ users quit smoking with the help of goals and targets.


Anti-Smoking App - Full Build
Rebuild of app helping 500,000+ users quit smoking with the help of goals and targets.

FTSE Listed Global Experience Consultancy - Team Augmentation
Continuous improvement of an Episerver Commerce Cloud site for a luxury homeware brand.


AI-Powered Digital Transformation Platform
Fresh build of a platform empowering users to assess, analyse and compare the digital transformation potential of any company.

Industrial Machinery Manufacturer
Rebuilding of a multi-national marketing site which sells industrial and construction materials across multiple markets, covering 7 different languages.


International Medical Research Foundation Website
Website rebuild to help optimise functionality and improve design of an existing site.


Disruptive Work Space and Meeting Room Tech Co
Support and continuous improvement of a D2C platform which offers users access to wifi, desk and meeting room spaces across a wide range of unique city venues.


Leading Heavy Construction Material Supplier
Support and maintenance of a mobile application used nationwide by sales teams to quote and sell heavy building materials.

World Class Pharma Business
Creation of an innovative, educational mobile app which generates virtual lenses to illustrate how different eye conditions affect patients.

Household Fast Food Chain Brand
Rebuild of the core ordering mobile app of a global food chain to improve UX, interface design and ease of customer payment with millions of users per day.


Innovative Social Media App for Families
Blended team working with inhouse developers on a critical web app release for a next generation social media platform, with key focus on data privacy and security due to target market of application.


UK's Leading Motoring Service Provider (12m+ Clients)
Team augmentation of 8+ developers and testers working alongside internal development squads to support the ongoing development of business critical e-commerce, fleet telematics and digital breakdown platforms.



Mental Health Support Start-up
Creation of a flexible, blended team to help inhouse developers improve a 'personal training' app focused on mental and emotional health.


Premium Sports Events Concierge Service Start-up
Design, creation and build of a premium concierge platform used for corporate entertainment at sports events.


G7 Nation's Armed Forces Reserve App
Support and continuous improvement using a retained nearshore team to update and optimise mobile app.

Premium Vintage Car Brand
Full design and build of an auction website used to sell cars for an exclusive vintage car club.


Global German Car Manufacturer
Creation of a web app used by customers looking to buy hybrid and electric cars, to calculate the financial benefits and ROI of purchase.


Major UK Research Charity
Creation of an iOS app which helps users automatically donate to charity by selling second hand clothing on eBay.


International Coffee Machine Manufacturer
Creation and fresh build of a marketing website used to promote the company's new product range.


Leading Online Key and Lock eCommerce Store
Stood up a continuous improvement team to help support refactoring of legacy code, development of new features and optimisation of the customer journey


Global Sporting Governing Body
Fresh build of a video streaming web and mobile app used by a sports governing body to share content globally.


Leading UK Transportation Company
Continuous improvement of a bespoke web portal and mobile application used by in depot staff and bus drivers to carry out legal inspections of buses during service.


International Trade Organisation Website
Creation of an information website used by trade associations to share public and private content with members


Industry Trusted Automated Threat Modeling Platform
Fresh website build for a threat modelling platform, integrating Hubspot to allow for easy content management.


UK's Leading Transport Provider
Creation of a blended project team to support complex development activities and a mobile app delivery.


Stock Exchange Listed Insurance Provider
Creation of a blended squat, adding flexible Drupal resources to an existing inhouse team, to help scale up and down backend development of an insurance platform.


UK National Weight Loss App - Full Build
Fresh build of a mobile application which benchmarks user fitness and drives individual progress, through analysis of community data.


World War 2 Memorial Centre
Creation of an application used to guide users around a memorial center and augment their experience through exclusive mobile content.


Motivational Smart Healthcare Chatbot
Build of an AI-powered, chat-based, digital health assistant offering Psoriasis patients information on their condition and advice on management. Application is used during medical trials.


Global Pharma Company - Sites
Migration of four product marketing sites from a legacy CMS to a new Drupal platform.


Global Pharma Company - App
Integration of software development kit for a voice-enabled diagnostic and prescription app used by medical professionals.


National Exercise Scheme App
Redesign and build of a fitness app which encourages users to exercise on a daily basis and track their level of activity.


Major American Multinational Fried Chicken Chain
Discovery, design and build of a brand new ordering platform to be used by a fast food company ahead of their UK launch.


Global Business Consultancy (110+ Countries)
Fresh build of a company website with multiple integrations and complex CMS requirements, for varied markets and audiences. Integrations included CRM, location data and blog management.


Innovative Green Energy Startup
Web app build providing energy use data and visualisation for users as well as an admin portal for the startup


Leading UK Science Organisation
Creation and build of a 12 step interactive web based game used to introduce kids and teenagers to chemistry.


Legal tech startup
Website improvement programme to increase trust with clients.

Flexible UK Workplace Provider
Creation and fresh build of multiple mobile apps, including front and back-end development, used to access rooms and catering services.



Iconic UK Banking and Financial Services Brand
Creation of a blended project team using experienced, nearshore Android developers to support complex development activities, code review and delivery of a mobile app.


What is PHP?
PHP is probably one of the most well-known programming languages outside the developer community. Its prevalence on the web means many people talk about it, without even knowing what it is. Although it has not always meant the same thing, today it stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.
PHP is an Open-Source back-end technology that allows websites and applications to integrate seamlessly with databases and other scripting tools. This provides the backbone of interactivity on the web, and arguably the backbone of the internet itself.
The usual definition for PHP is that it is a general-purpose scripting language. People sometimes assume that it’s only use is in web development, however this is not actually the case. As a server-side programming language it is indeed ideally suited to web development, however it can also be used to create software systems, content management systems, customer relationship managers and many more software applications.
As PHP can be embedded with HTML (the language of the web), it has remained immensely popular with developers and project managers whenever database integration for applications or websites is involved.
Although PHP can be added to HTML (changing the file to .php from .html in the process), they are different and do not serve the same function. HTML Files are rendered by a web browser. This means that visiting a website prompts a browser to read the HTML as the website loads. PHP on the other hand is server-side, which means that the code is executed on the server with just the result of the code being returned to the browser with all the programming already done.
This means that none of the PHP code from the PHP files is visible to the browser or the viewer. Instead only the result of the code run is shown. As well as integrating with many databases, PHP also supports other front end scripting languages such as JavaScript and CSS
A brief history of PHP
PHP was created clearly early on in the history of web programming, initially launched in 1994. The language went through several iterations and naming conventions until 2004 with the release of PHP 5 which was a major update and is still the basis of later versions. The current version is PHP 8 and with continual development assured into the future it will not be the last.
Even as early as 2004 the PHP development team included developers working on both the main project and supporting projects, as well as documentation. This has led to the development of a whole underlying infrastructure on hundreds of web servers all over the world.
The latest W3techs figures show that around 78% of the top 10 million websites globally use PHP, with over 20% still on version 5 and 70 percent on version 7. This shows clearly that there are a huge number of businesses and organisations whose online presence relies on PHP and PHP developers.
Some of the most recognisable websites using PHP in some part as their back end technology are;
- Facebook.com.
- Wikipedia.org
- Indeed.com
- CoinMarketCap.com.
- Etsy.
- Mailchimp
- BBC.co.uk
- Bloomberg.com
There is a list of 26 billion+ websites known to use PHP on the BuiltWith website (source) which shows just how prevalent PHP as a back end technology on the web is in 2022 and beyond.
Why Use PHP?
As indicated above PHP is extremely popular and long-lived. When a technology lasts a long time in a fast paced environment like the internet there is usually a good reason. PHP is almost 30 years old and has been in continual development for all that time.
This maturity means that today’s PHP developers reap the benefit of multitudes of simple pre-existing PHP based solutions that are tried and tested as well as the continuing release of new resources and ready made functionalities.
Simplicity
PHP is widely used and fantastically documented. Once mastered, the language becomes simple to use and is friendly for beginners while being powerful enough for professional developers to create complex, dynamic and powerful websites and applications or simple interactive web pages with the same programming skills.
Flexibility
PHP can be used with any operating system, multiple servers and databases, as well as being able to integrate with other programming languages. Creating dynamic interactive web pages from existing static HTML content is possible by just the addition of PHP within the page.
PHP can handle images, and provides optimised images to users depending on the device they use. It can also manage forms, serve dynamic web pages, send email, assist cookie control and encrypt services, making it a super-flexible programming language.
Compatibility with all servers
When deploying on cloud servers like AWS and traditional web hosting servers running Linux, Apache, IIS etc, PHP is compatible by design. It runs efficiently no matter what server-side technology is in use.
Database Compatibility
Whether MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB or any other database, PHP connects easily. Regardless of whether a database is relational or non-relational, PHP speedily connects almost instantaneously.
100% Open Source
Open Source brings cost benefits to a project and is budget friendly, the open-source model is tried and tested with large communities of developers providing enhancements in functionality and resources on a continual basis.
The PHP community is extremely active and mature, having been around for such a long time. This helps ensure that PHP remains stable and secure in a way that proprietary products and services cannot hope to achieve.
Speed
An often cited benefit of PHP for web users is speed, google for instance places great value on website speed and web users continually say that slow websites are one of their pet peeves. Since turning visitors into customers and retaining customers is one of the key aims of most websites, speed is extremely important.
PHP is quick, it has super fast data processing and its tight integration with other back end and front end technologies ensures lightning fast turnaround times. Most surveys show that PHP handles up to 4000 requests per second, this of course will be dependent upon the application being tested and the servers used. However, it is important to note that if PHP is built badly, like any platform, it can be slow.
Whether a project is as extensive as the WordPress content management system or a fully dynamic financial trading board pulling data from around the web and instantly transforming it for browsers and viewers, PHP has it covered.
Why Hire PHP Developers
PHP powers a large part of the web, within that arena there are an equally vast number of different applications being powered by it. PHP developers create and maintain software and applications for the web and other environments.
This leads to PHP developers developing specialties within the language itself. For instance, there are multiple content management systems (CMS) available for businesses to use as the base of their web presence and most of the biggest names are based on PHP. CMS’s such as…
- WordPress – Blogging and website creation platform with extensibility.
- Magento – Full CMS with a focus on eCommerce.
- Adobe Commerce - Proprietary eCommerce CMS.
- Drupal – Website platform used by many Government and nonprofit organisations.
- Joomla – CMS Particularly popular in education settings and learning.
There are PHP developers who specialise in these platforms as well as many other PHP based products. For many of these PHP based products, there are now whole separate communities of developers specialized in these PHP based CMSs. A quick search for “WordPress developers” or “Magento developers” shows just how specialised the marketplace can be.
A vetted and accredited PHP developer, whether focused on a single product or not, is fluent in the language. This expertise adds value to projects ensuring an efficient development workflow focused on the desired outcome. They have experience of any integrations and understand how the programming language works across multiple platforms.
PHP developers can help with planning projects too. Every language has its nuances, their knowledge and insights of challenges and roadblocks specific to using PHP are invaluable to the successful delivery of projects. Having knowledge of the ready-made modules available can save both time and money over the span of a build.
Why use Deazy to hire PHP developers?
PHP continues to be one of the most used technologies, especially on the web. This means the demand for high quality developers is high. Due to PHP being extremely common in back-end services across the web, cloud computing and commercial products, the competition to find skilled developers is high.
When developing products or services for commercial use, businesses of all sizes use PHP to ensure great outcomes and to ensure the stability and reliability of their product. No matter if it is a commercial web app that will be used by thousands or millions, or to create a single dynamic and interactive e-commerce website, PHP is the proven technology of choice. It also has the track record and longevity which helps keep management and investors happy.
With a limited pool of certified developers and massive demand for the skillset, hiring high quality PHP certified developers is not only a time-consuming task but can also be an expensive affair. Attracting the best talent from the available pool is absolutely crucial to the success of an ambitious development roadmap.
Deazy’s unique, limitless ecosystem of pre-vetted, nearshore PHP developers ensures you get access to intelligently matched, flexible talent. Whether you are looking to start a new project from scratch or to augment an existing in-house team, Deazy provides flexible access to top talent from 60+ tech stacks, including certified PHP developers.
Deazy’s unique team-matching algorithm allows us to match your project or team augmentation requirements with developers who have experience in similar fields, prefer similar type engagements and enjoy working in your preferred team structure. Deazy also specialises in creating personalised dev squads of nearshore developers, who can slot directly into your existing in-house team or meet your project criteria.
Deazy also screens all their teams for culture, comms, tech knowledge and certification, before adding them to Deazy’s ecosystem of available candidates. Any candidates who apply to your projects have already been approved as legitimate, and qualified. This means our team saves you time finding reliable PHP developers who are well suited for your project before you even have to review CVs and project briefs.
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