In the present paper, we propose a Baskakov operator of integral type using a function φ on [0,∞) with the properties: φ(0)=0,φ′>0 on [0,∞) and limx→∞φ(x)=∞. The proposed operators reproduce the function φ and constant functions. For the constructed operator, some approximation properties are studied. Voronovskaja asymptotic type formulas for the proposed operator and its derivative are also considered. In the last section, the interest is focused on weighted approximation properties, and a weighted convergence theorem of Korovkin’s type on unbounded intervals is obtained. The results can be extended on the interval (−∞,0] (the symmetric of the interval [0,∞) from the origin).