PHP
Since 2001 Iflexion has been delivering tailored PHP applications for customers worldwide. We have accumulated more than 350 man-years of PHP development experience. Our major operation areas can be divided into 2 large groups:
1. Advanced domain-specific solutions
We apply in-depth business analysis, detailed prototyping, careful project planning, management and coordination to achieve objectives and mitigate project risks.
2. Simple yet interactive web sites, e-carts and web services
Mainstream solutions/procedures with less bureaucracy for smaller projects and pilot engagements allow us to deliver excellent results while reducing costs and timelines.
Why Iflexion
Iflexion offers professional PHP services grounded on established in-house processes and best-practice development methodologies.
- One-stop vendor — we offer full-cycle PHP project execution and will suggest the most cost-effective and convenient engagement model fitting your individual needs. Most of our PHP services like Technology Consulting, Application Prototyping, Maintenance & Support and Independent Quality Assurance are also available as separate offerings
- Extensive business domain expertise — we allocate project teams with relevant domain experience matching your needs and solution objectives.
- Profound technology skills — our PHP skill set can maintain most demanding and complex projects. We cover all the vital security, performance and scalability aspects.
- Fast tangible results — for PHP projects Iflexion normally utilizes Rapid Application Development (RAD) driven by Agile project management.
Domains
Websites and Internet Portals
Advanced PHP solutions development and integration: - Public enterprise portals
- Customer portals
- Web frontend for software products and systems
- Corporate and promo websites, online stores, web forms
|  See also: Web and Enterprise Portals |
Ecommerce
We deliver a full spectrum of ecommerce solutions:
- B2C and B2B marketplaces
- Secure payments & billing
- Online stores
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- 2C and B2B marketplaces
- Secure payments & billing
- Online stores
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|  See also: Ecommerce Solutions
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News & Entertainment Portals
High performance solutions with rich editorial capabilities. - Content management and authoring
- Editorial tools
- News feeds management
- Media distribution facilities
|  See also: Media Content Distribution
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Social Networking
Solutions that help people interact, contribute and collaborate online.
- Social commerce
- Online communities
- Enterprise 2.0 solutions
- Adding social features to existing solutions
- Integration with popular social networks
|  See also: Social Networking |
Mobile Web
+ Native Mobile Applications Mobile web and native applications development (iOS, Android, Windows Phone and Blackberry) to make your web services available from mobile devices.
|  See also: Mobile Development
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How we work
Principles
Mobility, flexibility and close attention to customers’ needs are our major collaboration principles. Iflexion’s cooperation models enable us to launch projects at short notice, especially when time-to-market is vital.
We are totally committed to long-term partnerships based on high quality servicing — from pilots to complex ambitious projects.
Iflexion PHP Team
We have a team of 60+ PHP professionals driven by a pool of mature project managers, architects and senior PHP developers, who form over 60% of the whole team.
We pay special attention to our team’s professional development and continuously nourish it with personnel trainings and motivation, knowledge sharing and performance monitoring.
Dedicated PHP Team Availability
Together with Fixed Price projects and Time & Material model Iflexion makes available for its customers Dedicated PHP Teams — starting at 3 months involvement.
- The common allocation time for the core members of the dedicated team is 2-4 weeks
- Our resource pool is scalable enough to expand the team by adding up to 4 members weekly
- We ensure best-match resource allocation, seamless communication and extensive bidirectional knowledge transfer enabling fast team productivity growth
Open-source Products Support

To cut project costs and reduce development time we support a number of customizable PHP products and reusable components like phpBB, TinyMCE, etc.
Full Support of LAMP
Iflexion provides seamless all-round development for LAMP stack:
- PHP development under Linux OS (Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE Linux, RedHat Linux, Fedora)
- Professional MySQL database development and optimization
- Multi-tier web server architecture design, setup, configuration and fine tuning
- Application deployment, stabilization and ongoing maintenance
Naturally, we also work with:
- AMP bundle running on Windows servers
- Web servers other than Apache — ngnix, IIS, etc.
Technology
PHP 5 and legacy solutions
Iflexion team works with PHP 5+ and provides a set of services for legacy systems written in PHP 4+:
- Support and extension of legacy systems
- Application and data migration from earlier PHP versions
We extensively use a number of proven frameworks that accelerate development process.
Technology Skills for Each Application Layer
By carefully applying profound architectural skills and PHP development best practices Iflexion builds well-designed PHP applications that overcome all the major challenges facing modern web applications.
- Open architecture to increase maintainability and support your business growth with painless extensions and improvements in the future.
- High load resistance and scalability achieved by smart multi-tier architecture, load balancing solutions, data layer optimization and utilizing appropriate technologies and protocols like FastCGI.
- Security for sensitive business data and transactions, including OWASP and PCI DSS pre-certification preparations if needed.
- Application integration with third-party web services, payment systems, corporate software etc. and custom API development and documentation.
- Rich user interface based on high usability standards. In addition to vast experience in developing PHP presentation layer we have solid skills in other relevant technologies to boost UI interactivity: Ajax, jQuery, ExtJS, Google AJAX API and YahooUI.
- Clean and well-commented code to enable code-level knowledge transfer and increase application maintainability. To improve overall application code quality we widely use analysis tools: PHP_CodeSniffer, PHP Depend, PHP Copy/Paste Detector and PMD.

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Profound experience in utilizing open-source search engines:

Start a PHP Project
Starting a project with Iflexion is easy. Simply post a request, call or e-mail us to start. Each project is handled by a team of professionals that always includes a business analyst and a technical expert. The team is involved from early stages of your enquiry to avoid vision gaps, clearly understand project goals and elaborate the optimal project execution strategy.