At the same time using purely php is about as convenient as it gets. Just rsync, ftp or scp your index.php to the server and deployment is done. PHP+Laravel is

At the same time using purely php is about as convenient as it gets. Just rsync, ftp or scp your index.php to the server and deployment is done. PHP+Laravel is more akin to ruby on rails or python django. Pure PHP is similar to Go in terms of the deployment scenario