What is user signup tracking in PHP

Tracking user signup events helps you know who is joining your app.

In an ecommerce site, you can see when a new account is created.

You can use this data to measure marketing, track conversions and spot issues quickly.

Introducing Operational for event tracking

Operational is an open source tool to collect events from any tech product.

It lets you send custom events and view them in a simple dashboard.

You can use it to track signups in your PHP application.

Setting up Operational

1. Go to app.operational.co and sign up.

2. Create a new project and copy the API key.

3. In your PHP project run:

   composer require operational/sdk-php

4. Use your API key in code to send events.

Tracking signup events in PHP

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

use Operational\\Operational;

$ops = new Operational('YOUR_API_KEY');

$payload = [
  'name' => 'user signup',
  'avatar' => '🆕',
  'content' => 'New user John Smith signed up with email john@example.com'
];

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

This snippet shows how to send a signup event when a new user registers.

Conclusion

Tracking signups with Operational can save time on building analytics from scratch.

You get real time insights and a simple setup.

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