Published on July 3, 2022

Track waitlist signup events via PHP

Track waitlist signup events via PHP

Say you have just come up with a great new product idea, and you're seriously considering turning it into a real product. Or maybe you have been working on a product for a while and are almost ready to launch it.

Usually, for both of these cases, developers create a prelaunch landing page before launching the product and set up a waitlist to collect user emails and monitor the demand for the product.

The prelaunch landing page is a great way to get your product idea out to the world and to get people interested in your product or idea. It also allows you to gather user feedback and get their input into your product.

LogSnag makes it easy to set up and track a prelaunch waitlist for your product or idea using PHP. It is a simple event tracking tool that allows you to track, analyze and create reports from your waitlist data.


Setting up LogSnag

  1. Sign up for a free LogSnag account.
  2. Create your first project from the dashboard.
  3. Head to settings and copy your API token.

PHP code snippets

Simply use the following code snippets to send your waitlist signup events to LogSnag. Make sure to replace the YOUR_API_TOKEN with your API token and update the project and channel names.

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":"auth","event":"Waitlist Member Added","description":"email: john@doe.com","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": "auth",
"event": "Waitlist Member Added",
"description": "email: john@doe.com",
"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":"auth","event":"Waitlist Member Added","description":"email: john@doe.com","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":"auth","event":"Waitlist Member Added","description":"email: john@doe.com","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

LogSnag is a use-case agnostic event tracking tool that allows you to track almost any event, such as prelaunch waitlist signups or beta signup for a new feature or product. It works seamlessly with PHP and is very easy to use.

In addition, with LogSnag, you can create charts and analytics from your data. For example, you may create a chart showing the number of daily or monthly waitlist signups for your product.

You may also create funnels to track the conversion rate from your waitlist signups to paying customers. You will also be able to generate user journeys for your users and see how they use your product once they get access to it.

LogSnag is also available on desktop and mobile and allows you to receive real-time notifications when your waitlist signups are added. You may also decide to receive push notifications for any other events that you may want to track from your PHP code.

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