What is profile update notification in PHP?

Sending real-time push notifications when a user updates their profile helps you track user actions.

For example, you can get notified when John Smith changes his email address.

Using Operational for notifications

Operational is an open source event tracking tool for any tech product.

You can use it to track events like profile updates and send push notifications to your team.

Setting up Operational

1. Go to https://app.operational.co and sign up for an account.
2. Create a new project in the dashboard.
3. Find your API key under project settings.
4. Install the PHP SDK with composer:

   composer require operational/operational-php

5. Copy your API key for use in your code.

Tracking profile updates in PHP

<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use Operational\\Operational;

$ops = new Operational('YOUR_API_KEY');

$payload = [
  'name'    => 'user_profile_updated',
  'avatar'  => '🔔',
  'content' => 'John Smith updated their profile information',
];

$response = $ops->events->ingest($payload);

This example sends an event to Operational when a user updates their profile. The event name is user_profile_updated and it includes a simple message.

Conclusion

Operational helps you save time and reduce hassle by handling event tracking and notifications.

Learn more at https://operational.co and try examples in the playground at https://operational.co/playground.