---
title: "Introduction"
description: "Introduction — PHP / Laravel BabelQueue driver (1.x)."
source: https://babelqueue.com/docs/laravel/1.x/introduction/
updated: 2026-06-15T00:00:00.000Z
---

# Introduction

The **PHP / Laravel** SDK is the canonical producer for BabelQueue. It lets your
Laravel application publish jobs as a strict, language-agnostic JSON envelope —
so Go, Python, Java, .NET and Node services consume them natively, without ever
touching PHP `serialize()`.

## What you get

- **Canonical wire envelope (`schema_version: 1`).** Every published message is a
  strict JSON document with a stable shape: `job`, `trace_id`, `data`, `meta` and
  `attempts`.
- **A `trace_id` on every message.** A required correlation UUID is stamped on
  publish and flows across every service that touches the job — no manual
  plumbing.
- **URN routing.** Jobs are identified by a URN (`urn:babel:<context>:<event>`),
  not a PHP class name, so consumers in any language can route on a stable key.
- **Drop-in broker drivers.** Choose your transport with one Laravel queue connection
  line — `babelqueue-redis`, `babelqueue-rabbitmq`, `babelqueue-sqs` or
  `babelqueue-artemis` (Apache ActiveMQ/Artemis over STOMP). Each extends the matching
  native driver, so standard jobs on the same connection pass straight through.
- **Dead-letter queue (DLQ).** Unknown URNs and exhausted retries can be routed
  to a dead-letter destination instead of being silently dropped.

## The envelope

```json
{
  "job": "urn:babel:orders:created",
  "trace_id": "7b3f9c2a-e41d-4f88-9b2a-1c0d5e6f7a8b",
  "data": { "order_id": 1042, "amount": 99.90 },
  "meta": { "id": "f1e2d3c4-b5a6-4789-90ab-cdef01234567", "queue": "default", "lang": "php", "schema_version": 1, "created_at": 1749132727000 },
  "attempts": 0
}
```

Continue to [Installation](/docs/laravel/1.x/installation/).