You are hiring a single PHP intern. The gap between a listing that fills in a week and one that sits open for two months is almost never the stipend — it is whether the brief names the actual php work.
Adding "Developer" changes the brief from understanding a system to building in it. A developer intern needs a repository, a ticket and a reviewer from week one; without those three they spend the term reading documentation and produce nothing you can keep.
Worth separating from PHP Development Internship: same skills, different commitment. PHP Developer Intern is a hire you scope around one deliverable, whereas php development internship is framed as a programme with a mentor and a fixed duration. Pick the framing that matches what you can actually offer, because candidates read the difference.
Use it as a checklist. By the end you should be able to write a PHP listing that a strong candidate reads to the bottom, and screen the applications it brings in.
What a single PHP intern actually does in the first 90 days
Each of these is work a team member would otherwise do. That is the test of a good intern brief: real work already on someone's list, not a project invented to keep the intern busy.
- Ship one reviewed, merged change that goes to production during the term
- Replace the legacy queries with prepared statements
- Add form validation and CSRF protection to the main flow
- Refactor one page into a controller and template
PHP skills worth screening for
Screen on the first three. The rest are teachable inside a term, and treating them as entry requirements shrinks your pool for no gain.
- 1Reading an existing codebase before changing it
- 2Modern PHP 8 features
- 3Composer and autoloading
- 4PDO and prepared statements
- 5MVC structure
- 6Session and cookie handling
- 7Input sanitisation
- 8PHPUnit basics
The tools column is where CV inflation happens. Pick two and ask what went wrong the last time they used them; the answer is unfakeable.
Screening questions for php developer intern
These separate practice from theory. Ask two, listen for a specific example, then follow the example rather than moving to the next question.
Show me something you built and tell me what you would do differently now.
What a good answer shows: Self-critique, which predicts how they will take code review
How do you stop SQL injection in PHP?
What a good answer shows: Prepared statements, immediately, with no hedging
What does Composer do for you?
What a good answer shows: Modern PHP versus 2010 PHP
Score every candidate on the same questions. Comparing free-form conversations across a shortlist is where inconsistency, and bias, get in.
Where the PHP candidates come from
You are hiring from a verified pool of students and recent graduates across India: premium institutes and strong regional colleges both, with projects, skill tags and availability already on the profile. Every employer is verified before a listing goes live, which is why candidates here actually reply.
- Skill tags — filter directly on PHP 8, Laravel or plain PHP, Composer and the rest of the PHP stack
- Availability window and notice, so a six-month role does not shortlist a six-week candidate
- Graduation year and current semester, so you only see candidates free when you need them
- Portfolio and project evidence attached to the profile, rather than a résumé alone
- Institute tier, if a specific campus cohort matters for this role
Skill tags come from the candidate’s own projects and verified profile, so filtering on PHP 8 or Laravel or plain PHP returns people who have used them rather than people who listed them.
What to pay a single PHP intern in 2026
₹11,500–₹27,500 a month is the band we see for this role across India. The spread is mostly city and company stage, not candidate quality.
It filters for who can afford to work free, not who is good. It also roughly halves your applications, and removes most of the candidates who had a second option.
A remote role competes with every city’s employers for the same candidate. Discounting a remote stipend to tier-2 levels loses you the tier-1 applicants you opened it up to reach.
The stipend calculator on this site uses live listing data for this role and city. A band chosen from memory is usually a year out of date, always in the same direction.
Funded product startups often pay above large services firms for the same role, because they are competing for the same few candidates and can decide faster.
Getting one PHP intern to actually produce something
The difference between an intern who ships and one who does not is almost never talent. It is whether the work was ready on their first day and whether someone read it on their second week.
Laptop, accounts, repository or dataset access, and a task small enough to finish in two days. Interns who spend week one waiting for access rarely recover the momentum.
Read their work in the first week, not the fourth. Early correction on a small piece of PHP work is cheap; late correction on a term’s work is not.
Someone who wants the output and will complain if it is wrong. Work with no audience is the fastest route to a disengaged intern.
Write down what a successful term would produce. Otherwise the end-of-term assessment becomes a memory of impressions, and that helps nobody.
How to post php developer intern on MyInternships.in
Posting is free and takes about two minutes. Our AI assistant asks a few questions and writes the description, so you are not filling a long form.
Start with the outcome rather than the title: what you want finished by the end of the term. The assistant turns that into a PHP listing.
You get a full PHP listing back in seconds, written to attract applications rather than to satisfy a form. Change anything you disagree with.
Your company details are verified once. Candidates see the verified badge, which is the single biggest driver of reply rate on an unfamiliar company.
Usually within a couple of hours. Shortlist using the screening questions above, or let the AI matcher rank the pool against your brief.
Free plan: one listing, live after verification. Starter ₹499: five listings a month, published instantly, full applicant contact and résumé access. Growth ₹999: fifteen listings with AI candidate matching.
Mistakes that cost you the good PHP candidates
Each is fixable before you post, and expensive after.
A PHP listing with fourteen required tools reads as a company that does not know what it needs. Strong candidates self-select out; the ones who apply anyway have inflated their CVs to match.
Developer framing draws builders. Give them something to build in week one — a developer brief with no ticket attached loses the strongest applicants inside a month.
Work that nobody reads produces an intern who stops trying by week four. Name the reviewer before you post, not after the offer is accepted.
A single interviewer hires people like themselves. A second pair of eyes on the shortlist costs half an hour and materially changes who gets through.
PHP Developer Intern — frequently asked questions
What skills should php developer intern have?+
The three that matter most are Reading an existing codebase before changing it; Modern PHP 8 features; Composer and autoloading. Beyond those, look for working familiarity with PHP 8, Laravel or plain PHP, Composer. Everything else on the list above is teachable inside a term — treating it as an entry requirement shrinks your pool without improving the hire.
Is php developer intern enough to move a real project forward?+
Yes, within a scoped brief. Ship one reviewed, merged change that goes to production during the term is achievable in a term with weekly review, and it is genuine output rather than a training exercise. What does not work is open-ended ownership of anything with production consequences — keep the judgement calls with the reviewer and the execution with the intern.
Is ₹11,500 a month enough for php developer intern?+
It is the bottom of the working band, and appropriate for a smaller city or a shorter commitment. In Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai or the NCR, expect to be closer to ₹27,500 for the same skills — you are competing with every other employer for the same few candidates. Decide where in the ₹11,500–₹27,500 band you sit before the first interview rather than during the offer call.
How do we screen php developer intern in a first call?+
Ask "How do you stop SQL injection in PHP?" — you are listening for prepared statements, immediately, with no hedging. Then follow the example they give rather than moving on to your next question. Score every candidate on the same set so the shortlist stays comparable.
What does it cost us in time to supervise one PHP intern?+
Realistically two to four hours a week of a competent person: a longer session early on, then short daily availability and a weekly review. Below that, the intern stalls and produces nothing you can use. Above it, you are doing the work yourself. That time is the true cost of the hire, and it is what the stipend line in your budget does not show.
Is a developer intern different from a general intern in this skill?+
Yes, and the difference is what you must provide rather than what they must have. A developer brief promises build work, so it needs repository access, a real ticket and a named reviewer from day one. If those are not ready, hire against the general brief instead — a developer intern with nothing to build leaves inside a month, and usually tells their campus why.
Is posting php developer intern on MyInternships.in free?+
Yes. One listing is free and goes live after a quick company verification, usually inside two working days. Paid plans start at ₹499 for five postings a month, publish instantly with no review wait, and unlock every applicant's résumé and contact details. Both routes reach the same candidate pool.
Can we convert php developer intern into a full-time hire?+
Yes, and it is usually the cheapest senior-quality hire available to you: no agency fee, no technical ramp on your stack, and an assessment based on months of work rather than two interviews. Say so in the listing if conversion is genuinely possible — it widens the applicant pool measurably and costs nothing.
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