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PHP & Laravel capstone projects

PHP is still the most commonly assigned stack for web capstones, largely because the runtime is light and the course material has been stable for years. The flip side is that committees have already marked hundreds of near-identical PHP projects — yours gets scrutinised on security and code structure rather than on whether the pages load.

Plain PHP

Laravel

CodeIgniter

WordPress

MySQL

XAMPP / Laragon

Bootstrap

jQuery

Briefs we take most often

E-commerce sites: cart, checkout, product administration, sandbox payment gateway integration.
Admin systems: library, HR, inventory, clinic, or hotel management with multi-role permissions.
Booking systems: tables, rooms, or appointments, with constraints that prevent double-booking.
Small forums and social apps: posts, comments, follows, notifications.
News sites with a CMS: categories, content management, comments, and search.

The three faults that cost PHP projects the most marks

These are the three things committees almost always check, and the three we fix whether or not you ask:

SQL injection. Plenty of PHP projects still concatenate user input straight into queries. We use prepared statements or the framework query builder throughout.
Passwords stored raw or hashed with MD5. The most frequently challenged detail in a defense. We use password_hash() or the framework’s built-in hashing.
All the logic in one file. A two-thousand-line index.php is both hard to explain and hard to extend when your supervisor asks for another feature. We separate into MVC even for plain PHP.

Plain PHP or Laravel

The answer follows your brief, not which one is more modern.

If your supervisor specified plain PHP, do not submit Laravel even though it is tidier — committees mark against the approved brief. If the brief leaves it open, Laravel earns marks on project structure, migrations, and authentication.

What you receive

Source code organised into MVC with meaningful names and comments on the non-obvious logic.
A .sql file you can import straight into phpMyAdmin, seeded with enough data to demo.
Setup documentation for XAMPP or Laragon — running on your machine before we finish.
A one-to-one walkthrough of the data flow and the questions committees ask about this kind of brief.

Frequently asked

My brief specifies plain PHP. Will you still take it?

Yes. We handle both plain PHP and frameworks. With plain PHP we still separate directories along MVC lines and use prepared statements, so you satisfy the brief without losing marks on structure or security.

Can you integrate a payment gateway in PHP?

Yes. We build both the redirect to the gateway and the callback handling, including what happens when a payment fails or the user closes the browser mid-flow. For coursework we normally use the provider’s sandbox credentials.

My code runs but my supervisor says the security is poor. Can you fix just that?

Yes, and this is far cheaper than a rebuild. We sweep every query onto prepared statements, change the password hashing, add input validation, and escape output against XSS. Your code stays; only the risky parts get replaced.