A senior PHP engineer reads your code. Architecture, security, footguns, performance — all of it explained in plain English, with concrete suggestions you can act on. Especially valuable for code your AI assistant produced.
Why human review still matters
AI assistants write a lot of plausible code. Some of it is good. Some of it is subtly wrong in ways that pass tests, lint clean, and ship — until it doesn't. We have spent over a decade looking at PHP code, and we know where the bodies are buried: race conditions in user-creation flows, permission checks that look right but aren't, "clever" SQL that turns into an injection vector under specific input.
What a review covers
- Architecture & structure — is the code organized in a way you can maintain six months from now?
- Security — auth, input handling, output encoding, file handling, CSRF, IDOR.
- Database — N+1 queries, missing indexes, transaction boundaries, parameter binding.
- Performance — obvious bottlenecks, caching opportunities, request/response size.
- UserSpice-specific — are you using the framework the way it was designed, or fighting it?
What you get
A written review with line-level comments, grouped by severity (must-fix, should-fix, nice-to-have). For larger reviews, an optional 30-minute walkthrough call so we can answer questions and you can push back on anything that seems off.
Engagement options
- Single PR review — turnaround in 2–3 business days.
- Repo audit — full codebase walkthrough, usually 1–2 weeks depending on size.
- Standing reviewer — monthly retainer, you tag us on PRs as needed.