Apps Built with PHP
PHP's continued dominance in African web development is a story about infrastructure economics rather than language design. It runs everywhere, on the cheapest hosting available, with no deployment pipeline required: upload files and the site is live. For a developer building a site for a local business that will pay a few dollars a month to host it, nothing else competes on that axis. The language itself has changed substantially: modern PHP has proper typing, meaningful performance gains and a serious dependency manager, so the criticism most people carry is a decade out of date. On this page you will find work spanning that whole range, from WordPress-adjacent builds to Laravel applications to hand-rolled systems keeping real businesses running. It is also the language a large share of self-taught developers here started with, which keeps the talent pool deep. Browse the products below.
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Frequently asked questions
- Is PHP still relevant?
- Very much so in these markets. Cheap ubiquitous hosting, a huge existing codebase and a deep talent pool keep it in daily production use.
- Is modern PHP different from its reputation?
- Substantially. Recent versions added strong typing and large performance improvements, and Composer gave it proper dependency management.