Published on July 5, 2022

Track payment events via PHP

Track payment events via PHP

When building a product or service that requires your users to pay for something, there are many ways that things can go wrong, such as delayed payments, fraud, or other such issues.

Thus, it is crucial to track these events in real-time and alert you and your team in the event of a problem.

LogSnag lets you track payment events such as User Subscription, User Purchase, User Cancellation, and User Redemption directly from your PHP application.


Setting up your account

  1. Create a free LogSnag account.
  2. Create a new project on your dashboard.
  3. Copy your API token from the settings page.

PHP code snippets

Using PHP with cURL
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
CURLOPT_URL => 'https://api.logsnag.com/v1/log',
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS =>'{"project":"my-saas","channel":"payments","event":"Successful Payment","description":"john@example.com - ($19.99)","icon":"💸","notify":true}',
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
'Content-Type: application/json',
'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN'
),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);
echo $response;
Using PHP with Guzzle
<?php
$client = new Client();
$headers = [
'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
'Authorization' => 'Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN'
];
$body = '{
"project": "my-saas",
"channel": "payments",
"event": "Successful Payment",
"description": "john@example.com - ($19.99)",
"icon": "💸",
"notify": true
}';
$request = new Request('POST', 'https://api.logsnag.com/v1/log', $headers, $body);
$res = $client->sendAsync($request)->wait();
echo $res->getBody();
Using PHP with HTTP_Request2
<?php
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';
$request = new HTTP_Request2();
$request->setUrl('https://api.logsnag.com/v1/log');
$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_POST);
$request->setConfig(array(
'follow_redirects' => TRUE
));
$request->setHeader(array(
'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
'Authorization' => 'Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN'
));
$request->setBody('{"project":"my-saas","channel":"payments","event":"Successful Payment","description":"john@example.com - ($19.99)","icon":"💸","notify":true}');
try {
$response = $request->send();
if ($response->getStatus() == 200) {
echo $response->getBody();
}
else {
echo 'Unexpected HTTP status: ' . $response->getStatus() . ' ' .
$response->getReasonPhrase();
}
}
catch(HTTP_Request2_Exception $e) {
echo 'Error: ' . $e->getMessage();
}
Using PHP with pecl_http
<?php
$client = new http\Client;
$request = new http\Client\Request;
$request->setRequestUrl('https://api.logsnag.com/v1/log');
$request->setRequestMethod('POST');
$body = new http\Message\Body;
$body->append('{"project":"my-saas","channel":"payments","event":"Successful Payment","description":"john@example.com - ($19.99)","icon":"💸","notify":true}');
$request->setBody($body);
$request->setOptions(array());
$request->setHeaders(array(
'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
'Authorization' => 'Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN'
));
$client->enqueue($request)->send();
$response = $client->getResponse();
echo $response->getBody();

PHP integration details

Connect LogSnag to your PHP code to easily track and keep a record of your product's payment events. With LogSnag, you can create simple charts and journeys to help you better understand your product. LogSnag also allows you to receive real-time push notifications on your desktop and mobile devices whenever a new payment event occurs.

Other use-cases for LogSnag

  1. Monitor your CI/CD build status for your PHP application
  2. Monitor your CPU usage in your PHP application
  3. Monitor when database goes down in your PHP application
  4. Monitor high disk usage in your PHP application
  5. Monitor when a user changes their email address in your PHP application
  6. Monitor failed logins in your PHP application
  7. Monitor failed payments for your PHP application
  8. Monitor memory usage in your PHP application
  9. Monitor MySQL downtime in your PHP application
  10. Monitor when a new feature is used in your PHP application
  11. Monitor your Postgres downtime in your PHP application
  12. Monitor Redis downtime in your PHP application
  13. Monitor suspicious activity in your PHP application
  14. Monitor when a user exceeds the usage limit for your PHP service
  15. Monitor when a user is being rate limited in your PHP application
  16. Get a notification when your PHP code is done executing
  17. Send push notifications to your phone or desktop using PHP
  18. Track canceled subscriptions in your PHP application
  19. Track your PHP cron jobs
  20. Track when a file is uploaded to your PHP application
  21. Track when a form is submitted to your PHP application
  22. Track user sign in events in PHP
  23. Track user signup events via PHP
  24. Track waitlist signup events via PHP
View all common use-cases with PHP