A great deal of the software that actually runs businesses is written in PHP, and much of it is still doing useful work years after the original developer moved on. Laravel is where I build new systems; older PHP and CodeIgniter is where I am often called in to keep something valuable alive.
Booking systems, inventory, invoicing, internal tools, reporting, portals — the applications that encode how a specific business works and therefore cannot be bought off the shelf. Laravel gives these a solid foundation: migrations, an ORM, queues, scheduling, validation and authentication, without much ceremony.
The internal screens are usually where staff spend their whole day, and usually the part that gets the least design attention. Fast filtering, honest validation messages, bulk actions and clear permissions often save more staff time than customer-facing features do.
Laravel APIs for mobile apps, React frontends and partner systems, with token authentication, rate limiting and versioning. On the integration side: payment gateways, SMS and email providers, accounting systems, and webhook endpoints that verify signatures and behave correctly when called twice.
Older codebases usually need three things: to stop breaking, to become deployable without fear, and to gain a path forward. That normally means fixing the urgent problems first, isolating the risky parts, and moving functionality across incrementally — not a big-bang rewrite that stops the business for six months.
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Only if there is a reason beyond the framework being old. If it works and can be maintained, stabilising it is cheaper. If every change is risky and nobody understands it, a staged migration — moving one area at a time behind a shared login — is usually the right answer.
Yes. I map the current schema first, keep what is working, and change structure only where it is causing real problems — with migrations and a rollback path.
Yes, where the hosting supports it. I set the document root, PHP version, cron entries and queue strategy to match what the host actually allows, rather than assuming a VPS.
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