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PostHog integration for Laravel applications
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This skill provides a systematic approach to integrating PostHog into Laravel applications. It emphasizes a clean architecture by utilizing a dedicated PostHogService class to wrap the PHP SDK, ensuring that analytics logic remains decoupled from business controllers. The guide covers user identification, custom event tracking, feature flag implementation, and error tracking, while strictly adhering to Laravel best practices such as using environment variables for configuration and avoiding the use of event observers for analytics.

What it does

  • Provides a step-by-step workflow for PostHog integration
  • Defines patterns for user identification and custom event capture
  • Demonstrates how to implement feature flags and payload support
  • Outlines methods for capturing exceptions and errors
  • Establishes a centralized service-based architecture for analytics
  • Includes reference examples for Laravel-specific implementation

When to use it

  • When you need to add analytics to a new or existing Laravel application
  • When you want to implement feature flags within a Laravel project
  • When you need to track user behavior and conversion funnels server-side
  • When you want to standardize error tracking across your Laravel codebase

Advantages

  • Promotes clean code by centralizing analytics in a service class
  • Ensures secure configuration management using environment variables
  • Provides clear patterns for identifying users during authentication
  • Reduces code duplication by following established implementation examples

Usage examples

“How do I set up PostHog in my new Laravel project?”
The agent will guide you through the four-step integration workflow, starting with project analysis and event planning, followed by configuration and implementation.
“Where should I place my PostHog capture calls in Laravel?”
The agent will instruct you to create a PostHogService class in app/Services/ and call capture methods explicitly within your application logic.

Install

  1. Download the skill as a ZIP:

    https://mp-staging.autogineer.com/agent-skills/posthog/integration-laravel/download

  2. Unzip it into the cross-client skills folder of your project:

    mkdir -p .agents/skills && unzip integration-laravel.zip -d .agents/skills

Documentation by PostHog

PostHog integration for Laravel

This skill helps you add PostHog analytics to Laravel applications.

Workflow

Follow these steps in order to complete the integration:

  1. basic-integration-1.0-begin.md - PostHog Setup - Begin ← Start here

  2. basic-integration-1.1-edit.md - PostHog Setup - Edit

  3. basic-integration-1.2-revise.md - PostHog Setup - Revise

  4. basic-integration-1.3-conclude.md - PostHog Setup - Conclusion

Reference files

  • references/EXAMPLE.md - Laravel example project code

  • references/laravel.md - Laravel - docs

  • references/identify-users.md - Identify users - docs

  • references/basic-integration-1.0-begin.md - PostHog setup - begin

  • references/basic-integration-1.1-edit.md - PostHog setup - edit

  • references/basic-integration-1.2-revise.md - PostHog setup - revise

  • references/basic-integration-1.3-conclude.md - PostHog setup - conclusion

The example project shows the target implementation pattern. Consult the documentation for API details.

Key principles

  • Environment variables: Always use environment variables for PostHog keys. Never hardcode them.

  • Minimal changes: Add PostHog code alongside existing integrations. Don't replace or restructure existing code.

  • Match the example: Your implementation should follow the example project's patterns as closely as possible.

Framework guidelines

  • Create a dedicated PostHogService class in app/Services/ - do NOT scatter PostHog::capture calls throughout controllers

  • Register PostHog configuration in config/posthog.php using env() for all settings (api_key, host, disabled)

  • Do NOT use Laravel's event system or observers for analytics - call capture explicitly where actions occur

  • Remember that source code is available in the vendor directory after composer install

  • posthog/posthog-php is the PHP SDK package name

  • Check composer.json for existing dependencies and autoload configuration before adding new files

  • The PHP SDK uses static methods (PostHog::capture, PostHog::identify) - initialize once with PostHog::init()

  • PHP SDK methods take associative arrays with 'distinctId', 'event', 'properties' keys - not positional arguments

Identifying users

Identify users during login and signup events. Refer to the example code and documentation for the correct identify pattern for this framework. If both frontend and backend code exist, pass the client-side session and distinct ID using X-POSTHOG-DISTINCT-ID and X-POSTHOG-SESSION-ID headers to maintain correlation.

Error tracking

Add PostHog error tracking to relevant files, particularly around critical user flows and API boundaries.

Files

references/laravel.md

Laravel - Docs

PostHog makes it easy to get data about traffic and usage of your Laravel app. Integrating PostHog enables analytics, custom events capture, feature flags, and more.

This guide walks you through integrating PostHog into your Laravel app using the PHP SDK.

Installation

First, ensure Composer is installed. Then run composer require posthog/posthog-php to install PostHog’s PHP SDK.

Next, initialize PostHog in the boot method of app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php:

app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php

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<?php
namespace App\Providers;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
use PostHog\PostHog;
class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    public function boot(): void
    {
        PostHog::init(
            '<ph_project_token>',
            [
                'host' => 'https://us.i.posthog.com'
            ]
        );
    }
}

You can find your project token and instance address in your project settings.

Usage

To access your PostHog client anywhere in your app, import use PostHog\PostHog; and call PostHog::method_name. For example, below is how to capture an event in a simple route:

routes/web.php

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<?php
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use PostHog\PostHog;
Route::get('/', function () {
    PostHog::capture([
        'distinctId' => 'distinct_id_of_your_user',
        'event' => 'route_called'
    ]);
    return view('welcome');
});

Next steps

For any technical questions for how to integrate specific PostHog features into Laravel (such as analytics, feature flags, A/B testing, etc.), have a look at our PHP SDK docs.

Alternatively, the following tutorials can help you get started:

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PostHog/skills · skills/posthog/integration/skills/laravel · commit a5d30e7
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  • ATTRIBUTION.md (written by AutoGineer)
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