Thursday 18 June 2015

PHP: Generate log messages and save to a custom file.

We all know that PHP save errors in php_errors.log file.

But, that file contains a lot of data.

If we want to log our application data, we need to save it to a custom location.

We can use two parameters in the error_log function to achieve this.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.error-log.php

We can do it using:

error_log(print_r($v, TRUE), 3, '/var/tmp/errors.log');

Where,

print_r($v, TRUE) : logs $v (array/string/object) to log file.
3: Put log message to custom log file specified in the third parameter.
'/var/tmp/errors.log': Custom log file (This path is for Linux, we can specify other depending upon OS).

OR, you can use file_put_contents()

file_put_contents('/var/tmp/e.log', print_r($v, true), FILE_APPEND);

Where:

'/var/tmp/errors.log': Custom log file (This path is for Linux, we can specify other depending upon OS).
print_r($v, TRUE) : logs $v (array/string/object) to log file.
FILE_APPEND: Constant parameter specifying whether to append to the file if it exists, if file does not exist, new file will be created.

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