# PHP

### Introduction

The Inspector PHP package sends performance metrics and errors to your Inspector account. It has  a simple API which allows you to instrument any application or PHP script.

### How does the package works?

The package can be used to wrap your application execution cycles to measure their duration and metadata (like the DB statements), as well as HTTP related information (like the URL, parameters, headers, etc).

These events, called Transactions and Segments, are sent to our ingestion API. Our data ingestion system  converts and store them to provides you with insights into latency issues and error culprits within your application.

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This package can be used as dependency to develop frameworks' specific integration as we did for [Symfony](/guides/symfony.md) and [Laravel](/guides/laravel.md).
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### Useful Links

* Website: <https://www.inspector.dev>
* Blog: <https://www.inspector.dev/blog>
* GitHub repository: <https://github.com/inspector-apm/inspector-php>


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```
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```

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Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.