Introduction

When installing Laravel Flare into a PHP application, we recommend using the following package flare-client-php v2: a more general client for all PHP applications out there (PHP 8.2 and later).

In the past we'be had multiple clients for framework agnostic PHP applications without support for performance monitoring. While these packages are still available, we recommend using the new flare-client-php package for all new projects:

• spatie/flare-client-php v1: supports PHP 8.0 and later
• facade/flare-client-php v1: supports PHP 7.1 until 8.0

We recommend the laravel-flare client for a Laravel application, while the flare-php-client package should be used for every other PHP application.

Upgrading

You can find more information about the flare-client-php upgrade from v1 to v2 here.