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typing, meaningful performance gains and a serious dependency manager, so the criticism most people carry is a decade out of date.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.