HIRE PHP DEVELOPERS

Need to hire PHP developers for your project or want to set up a fully functional product team? Then Qubit Labs is exactly what you are looking for. Qubit Labs is offering experienced coders for hire, so that you could extend your in-house team with one offshore PHP developer or get dedicated development team for your project. Read more about setting up dedicated team in our case study.

Qubit Labs takes care about recruiting, retention, HR process and provides office space, equipment, social package to make your team happy. We process payroll and tax accounting for your team. The advantage is that you manage your team on your own and control their performance while we support all back-office.

At Qubit Labs we offer a variety of development services and build dedicated teams in a smart and cost-effective way. Our recruiters are always on their quest for the best professionals in every sphere of software development, including PHP developers.

Our hiring experts use a variety of platforms such as LinkedIn, Djinny, Dou, GitHub, etc. to hire offshore PHP devs and build PHP development teams, always trying to expand the sources for the search and look not only at the biggest players in the industry but also giving niche services a chance. At the end of the day, it is the quality of talent that matters.

The interview process at Qubit labs is thorough and every candidate is vetted with the utmost attention. To give a better idea on how the interview process usually goes, we’ve made a shortlist of procedures, tests and tasks a candidate would usually go through. Here is our guide where you can learn more about hiring a PHP developer.

1. HR interview

Here we will usually tell the candidate more about the company, what kinds of projects we’ve had, name some ongoing projects as examples, and then get to the project the candidate is interviewing to be on. This part is the most basic compatibility check, getting to know the candidate, learning about their experience, the development services they offer and general work ethic. After the HR interview, we always present the candidate to our client.

2. Technical interview

The next step is logically to move to the tech skills of the candidate. When the project is big and complex, sometimes this part is even split into two stages. This is the time the candidate gets to meet the PHP development team they would be working with, mutually ask questions, and for the candidate to show their best work both in theory and in practice. Sometimes the candidate is asked to do all of this online.

3. Test task

A task is usually given to candidates applying for positions more skewed towards art, like designers, but it happens that an IT candidate would get a test task, too. More often than not that would happen for a junior position.

4. Offer

The last, and the most pleasant for everyone, part of the process is finally making the candidate an offer. The more transparency and communication there is on this stage of negotiations, the better. The candidate is given a certain time to mould over the offer and then gives us their decision.

Skills and knowledge necessary for a PHP developer and how to check them:

Knowledge and expertise beyond the basics

Example of questions:

Question: What is PHP?
Expected Answer: PHP is a script-based programming language that lets software developers dynamically create generated web pages.

Question: What is the currently used PHP version?
Expected Answer: Version 7.1 or 7.2 is the recommended one.

Question: What is the comparison of objects built in PHP?
Expected Answer: To test if two objects are instanced from the same class and have the same attributes and equal values, the operator ‘==’ is used in PHP. We can determine whether two objects are related to the same instance of the same class by using the identity operator ‘===’.

Question: How can PHP and HTML interact?
Expected Answer: You can generate HTML through PHP scripts, and it is possible to pass bits of information from HTML to PHP.

Question: Are multiple inheritances supported in PHP?
Expected Answer: No. PHP supports only single inheritance. (This means that a class can only be extended from one single class by use of the keyword ‘extended’.)

Adaptability to changes in PHP
Example of questions:

Question: What are the differences between PHP 5.6 and 7.x.?

Why ask: The question will help assess the level of familiarity the candidate has of different PHP versions. A lot of companies still use PHP 5.x and such questions are only natural, especially in the framework of migration to the newer version.

Question: What is the PHP version that’s actually used?
Answer: Version 7.1 or 7.2 is the recommended version of PHP.

Work ethic
Example of questions:

Question: An application stopped working. What do you do?
Why ask: Problem-solving and creative thinking is the bread and butter of software development, so pay close attention to how the candidate talks about fixing things that go south. Do they take the time to break the situation down and start the problem-solving with identifying the potential causes? Are they comfortable and confident enough to ask for help and do they know where to go look for answers? What is their reaction if you tell them their first idea for a solution didn’t work?

Question: Share a website or app that bugs you. What’s wrong with it?
Why ask: This sheds some light onto the candidate’s awareness of current issues in web development, as well as their own problem-solving abilities. A good answer to this question is a concrete problem, minimal negativity and a proposed solution. Skilled PHP developers will offer specific solutions to practical issues, like how to improve load times or optimize the user experience.

Question: Please share the experience with some projects you’ve worked on and describe the approach you used in them, from start to finish?
Why ask: This is a good question to start with because you can be immediately let in on the candidate’s work style. This showcases how they analyze and solve problems, manage user feedback, handle QA, and collaborate in a team environment. Their response will also be indicative of their level of enthusiasm for software development.

INFRASTRUCTURE. Our office in Kyiv is fully equipped with hardware and software facilities necessary for trouble-free working process, and complies with the highest security standards.

EMPLOYEE WELLNESS. We make sure to create the best working conditions for offshore PHP developers you hire from us. It’s our job to take care of tea, coffee, lunches, corporate parties and other basics.

ADMINISTRATION. Our company will comply to your company’s policies related to employee work timings. Each dedicated PHP programmer will be motivated to deliver quality on a full-time basis.

RECRUITING. In 99% cases, you can hire PHP developers with Qubit Labs. If there are no corresponding coders available in our pool, we will recruit them for you.

HR MANAGEMENT. Our specialists fully cover onboarding and retention. We ensure that each offshore PHP developer is satisfied with his work.

AGILE PROCESS. PHP development at Qubit Labs is based on Agile practices, ensuring adaptiveness and rapid response to change. Be sure that hired offshore developers work according to the most efficient development methodology.

ACCOUNTING. Forget about headaches and costs related to audits, tax filings and other accounting hassles. Our accounting experts undertake it all.

LEGAL. Company filings and all issues connected to legal compliance are our affair. We guarantee that you will not spend time on things disturbing development and business activities.

Qubit Labs offers PHP programmers for hire skilled in the following technologies: PHPUnit, Zend Framework, CakePHP, Laravel, Symfony, Yii Framework, Joomla, Magento, WordPress, Drupal.

You can hire a PHP programmer or set up entire PHP development team based on your needs and scale of your project. The range of solutions PHP programmers can do for you is fairly broad. Here are the most popular packages:

Let’s go over the basics: PHP is a server-side scripting language one can use to develop a Static or a Dynamic website or a web application. PHP now stands for Hypertext Preprocessor, however it earlier stood for Personal Home Pages where the abbreviation itself comes from. It’s important to know that PHP scripts can only be interpreted on a server with installed PHP. When talking about a PHP file, we mean a file ending in “.php” and containing PHP tags.

Meanwhile, platforms used to create PHP web applications are called PHP frameworks. They contain libraries with pre-packaged functions and classes and, more often than not, elements for software design pattern realization.

Given the limitations, PHP has abundantly used for a variety of tasks and software developers prefer the language when working on all kinds of products. Here are some examples of PHP usage:

E-Commerce

E-commerce headlines the list of services for using PHP. Be it a small business or a large enterprise, companies are always looking to create additional streams of revenue online. Knowing how to integrate existing e-commerce solutions or build your own from the ground up, will give you a solid advantage in front of your clientele but It really depends on how much time you are willing to invest in tackling e-commerce.

Project Management Tools

Whether you are a freelancer or a development company, project management is a vital part of your business. Transparency is a very attractive quality when it comes to any work dynamic, so giving your client a tool that lets them monitor the work progress and provide feedback is going to put you ahead in the race. Ideally, with a good project management system in place, your clients will be thoroughly pleased with the end result.

Graphical User Interface

If you and your PHP development team like a challenge and aren’t scared of a little extra work, you can extend your PHP installation to create desktop applications. It does require some deeper knowledge of PHP and some might say it’s easier to create desktop apps in other languages, but If PHP is your favorite programming language, you can use PHP GTK or ZZEE PHP GUI PHP extensions to get you started on our way to creating beautiful GUI applications.

Online Community

Consumers like to be connected to the message of the service they’re using as much as they want to be connected to other users of said service. It’s important to provide your customers with support and a good way to use the community resource is creating a forum where users can connect and help each other with product-related issues, and even answer technical questions. This would decrease your workload and give you access to valuable feedback. You can build a PHP-driven online community from scratch, or implement an already developed script onto your website.

Facebook Apps

It is quite widespread to integrate Facebook with a website using PHP. If that’s something you’d like to try, the Facebook developer’s wiki can help you get started. It explains the Facebook PHP client library and provides easy-to-follow instructions on how to install and use the files from the library. This would be a logical step for Facebook users interested in the back-end of the platform, too.

Mailing Lists

You can use a pre-made script or write your own, either way, newsletters are a good way to keep in contact with our clients, keep them informed about your services and products, holidays, vacations, and general announcements. These automated newsletters can contain everything you may possibly need to communicate with your clientele. To understand the PHP mailing functions better, one can turn to The PHP online documentation. You can also download and install scripts to use on your website.

Graphs and Charts

If what you’re after is a visual manifestation of ideas and information, you can make your website more visually engaging using PHP, too! You can go to town creating all sorts of charts – pie charts, bar graphs, impulse, dot/scatter, step, candlestick, box & whisker, radar. This is incredibly useful for e-commerce websites or any other sites used to present graphical data in a concise manner.

Content Management Systems

This would be one of the most common and popular applications of PHP. A good CMS gives your client the freedom to update their website and add content without any in-depth knowledge of HTML and CSS. Some important boxes to tick when creating a good Content Management System are “user friendly”, “extensible”, “produces clean URL’s”, and “search engine friendly”. Again, there are online resources to help you with coding your own CMS, or you can use one of the widely available free or commercial solutions pre-made for your use.

PHP Photo Gallery

Just PHP’s file handling functions alone will be a great help in creating your own photo gallery. The process is more than simple: start with putting your photos in a single directory, then use PHP’s Exif function to get header information for each photo and create a thumbnail version of it. This is a quick and quirky way to show off your photography.

Dynamic Website Templates

Using PHP can ease adding pages and elements to your web pages dynamically. You create an HTML page, split it into the header, main content, and footer sections; then add the .php extension to your subsequent pages and use server-side Includes for the header and footer for each new page. As a rule, the more “templated” your site is, the easier it is to switch up the content and keep the website up to date.

WordPress Plugins

WordPress is a uniquely flexible blogging system that you can employ to do practically anything for you – from e-commerce to content management. Having some WordPress experience and some PHP knowledge will put you well on the path to begin plugin development.