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PSD to PHP development

Your design built as a dynamic PHP application — modern PHP 8, secure by construction, and structured so the next developer can read it.

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PHP is not the language it was when most opinions about it were formed. PHP 8 brought typed properties, enums, match expressions, readonly classes and a JIT compiler, and the tooling around it — Composer, static analysis, automated tests — is mature. Written properly, it is a fast and entirely respectable way to build.

Written improperly, of course, it is where most of the web’s security incidents live. So the practices are not optional on our builds: every database query goes through prepared statements, every piece of output is escaped at the point it is rendered, every form carries CSRF protection, uploads are validated by content rather than by file extension, and credentials sit in environment configuration rather than in a file inside the web root.

The structure depends on what you are building, and we scope it honestly. A brochure site with a contact form does not need Laravel — a clean set of templates, a small router and a mail handler is faster to build, cheaper to host and simpler for you to change. An application with authentication, roles, queues and a real domain model benefits from a framework, and we build those in Laravel.

Either way, presentation stays separate from logic. Templates handle output, classes handle behaviour, and business rules do not live inside a view. We use Twig or Blade for templating, which gives you automatic output escaping, template inheritance and reusable partials — so a change to the header happens once rather than in every file.

Data modelling is done deliberately. Tables are normalised, columns are typed correctly, foreign keys and indexes are declared, and schema changes ship as migrations so your staging and production databases stay in step. It is unglamorous work and it is what stops a project becoming unmaintainable in year two.

The front end is the same standard as every other service line here: semantic HTML, modern CSS, responsive on real devices, accessible to WCAG 2.2 AA. A dynamic back end is no reason for the markup to be worse, though it very often is.

You receive the source with a readable structure, a README covering setup and deployment, environment configuration kept out of version control, and notes on anything a future developer would otherwise have to reverse-engineer.

How the build is put together

  • PHP 8.2 or newer with typed properties, enums and strict types where they help
  • Prepared statements throughout via PDO — no string-concatenated SQL anywhere
  • Output escaped at render time, CSRF tokens on every form, validated file uploads
  • Twig or Blade templating so presentation stays separate from logic
  • Composer for dependencies; secrets in environment configuration, never in the repository
  • Normalised schema with indexes, foreign keys and versioned migrations
  • Plain PHP for straightforward sites, Laravel where an application genuinely needs a framework

Running an older codebase? We take on PHP 5 and 7 upgrades — dependency updates, deprecation fixes and a security pass — quoted separately from new development.

PSD to PHP starts at $99

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  • PHP 8
  • Laravel
  • MySQL
  • Prepared Statements
  • Twig
  • Secure Forms
  • PHP 8
  • Laravel
  • MySQL
  • Prepared Statements
  • Twig
  • Secure Forms

FAQ

PSD to PHP — questions we get asked

Which PHP version do you target?
PHP 8.2 or newer by default, so the code benefits from current performance and security support. We will target an older version if your hosting requires it, and tell you what that costs you.
Do I need a framework?
Often not. A brochure site with forms is faster and cheaper as clean templates plus a small router. Authentication, roles, queues or a real domain model are where a framework earns its keep — we build those in Laravel.
How do you handle security?
Prepared statements for every query, escaping at output, CSRF tokens on forms, content-based upload validation, password hashing with the current algorithm, and secrets kept in environment configuration outside the web root.
Can you connect the site to a database?
Yes — MySQL, MariaDB or PostgreSQL, with a normalised schema, proper indexing and versioned migrations so schema changes are repeatable across environments.

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