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Stress-free management of your vital PHP Applications

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PHP Lab is your go-to company for specialised PHP software development and support

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Experienced

We have over 23 years experience building and maintaining PHP applications.

By entrusting your PHP needs to our experts, you can focus on your core business while we handle the technical aspects with diligence and care.

New Zealand Based

Our team of specialist PHP developers are located right here in New Zealand and are readily available via phone or email

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Services

Looking for someone to take care of your PHP application end to end, we can do that.

Alternatively, you can pick from our range of PHP related services, from database management, PHP version updating to hosting or integrating your application to an API. We can work with your in house team or existing provider.

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Why Us

Experienced, local PHP Specialists

We have the experience. We use local developers not outsourced offshore developers

We specialise in one programming language, rather than pretending we can support every language.

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About PHP Lab

PHP Lab is a brand of maffey.com limited. We have been in the software development business for 23 delivering long-term support to customers in a wide range on industries.

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Articles

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Custom Software Development

A quick look at the benefits of custom software and off the shelf software.

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PHP the Enduring Frankenstein

Is PHP the Enduring Frankenstein of the Programming World, A tongue in cheek look at the longevity of PHP

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PHP is for us

PHP is a server side programming language which gets a bit of flack from the cool kid developers these days. So why do we stick with it?

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Shifting from Physical to Cloud Hosting

A strange journey where I figure out the benefits of letting go of our physical hosting environment and moving to the cloud.

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Applying for a job in the software industry

Recently we were recruiting for a new software developer, it has been an eye opening exercise

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PHP Frameworks

Why we prefer our custom framework to an off the shelf framework

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How to price software development

Fixed price vs time and materials pricing.

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Xero OAuth 1 to OAuth 2.0

Migrating from Xero OAuth 1 to OAuth 2.0

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Timeless SQL

A couple of notes on SQL after spotting an article on Slashdot proclaiming SQL is the most sort after programming skill in January 2020.

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A review of the origins of the internet

Some key moments leading to the invention of the internet.

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Case Studies

Timothy D Hill

Dove Medical Press


Customer for 19 Years

"We took the opportunity to rationalize our business processes and build those into the backend of our website.
I am happy to recommend Chris and PHPLab to anyone who is seeking to develop their business and have a world class web application."

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Dave and Kerry Kettle

New Zealand Fine Touring Group


Customer for 20 Years

"PHPLab's understanding of my needs and requirements and the ability to interpret my 'layman' requests and turn them into functional and most importantly, profitable, websites is invaluable."

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Malcolm Scrymgeour

Zumo Retail


Customer for 16 Years

"It is without hesitation that we recommend PHPLab for database driven websites.

There's only one company we would recommend anyone considering a database website solution and that's PHPLab"

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