PHP
  Home arrow PHP arrow Logging With PHP
Dev Shed Forums  
Administration  
AJAX  
Apache  
BrainDump  
DHTML  
Flash  
Java  
JavaScript  
Multimedia  
MySQL  
Oracle  
Perl  
PHP  
Practices  
Python  
Reviews  
Security  
Smartphone Development  
Style-Sheets  
Web Services  
XML  
Zend  
Zope  
Mobile Linux  
App Generation ROI  
IBM® developerWorks  
Forums Sitemap  
E-Commerce Hosting  
Linux Web Hosting  
Managed Hosting  
Small Business Hosting  
VPS Hosting  
Weekly Newsletter

 
Developer Updates  
Free Website Content 
 RSS  Articles
 RSS  Forums
 RSS  All Feeds
Write For Us Get Paid  
Request Media Kit
Contact Us  
Site Map  
Privacy Policy  
Support  
 USERNAME
 
 PASSWORD
 
 
  >>> SIGN UP!  
  Lost Password? 
Google.com  
PHP

Logging With PHP
By: icarus, (c) Melonfire
  • Search For More Articles!
  • Disclaimer
  • Author Terms
  • Rating: starstarstarstarstar / 34
    2002-11-27


    Table of Contents:
  • Logging With PHP
  • The Bare Necessities
  • Turning The Tables
  • Turning Up The Heat
  • Biting Into A PEAR
  • Destination Unknown
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Big Brother Is Watching
  • Closing Time

  • Rate this Article: Poor Best 
      ADD THIS ARTICLE TO:
      error-file:tidyout.log Del.ici.ous error-file:tidyout.log Digg
      error-file:tidyout.log Blink error-file:tidyout.log Simpy
      error-file:tidyout.log Google error-file:tidyout.log Spurl
      error-file:tidyout.log Y! MyWeb error-file:tidyout.log Furl
    Email Me Similar Content When Posted
    Add Developer Shed Article Feed To Your Site
    Email Article To Friend
    Print Version Of Article
    PDF Version Of Article

     
     
    ADVERTISEMENT


    Logging With PHP
    ( Page 1 of 9 )

    Want to log script activity in your Web application, but have no clue where to begin? Take our handy tour of PHP's logging functions, and find out how simple it really is.I have to warn you not to be misled by the title of this article. It isn't really about cutting down trees with PHP.

    I know that PHP is the Swiss Army knife of Web scripting languages, but I don't think its developers have come up with a way to have it reduce our tree cover (at least not yet). Rather, this article is about a different sort of logging - the sort which involves writing messages to files or devices on a regular basis, and using these messages to "do something useful", be it generating a report or building an audit trail for activity tracking.

    Over the next few pages, I'm going to take a quick look at the various mechanisms available to log script activity via PHP, demonstrating both built-in functions and add-on classes that allow you to add logging functionality to your applications. I'll also spend some time on the PHP functions and configuration options related to logging, demonstrating how, for example, PHP errors can be sent to the Web server error log or emailed to an administrator when they are over a particular priority level.

    My primary audience for this tutorial is the novice to intermediate PHP user - if you're an advanced user, you probably already know enough about logging with PHP, and might prefer to skip the rest of this article in favour of more nutritious fare. Everyone else - keep reading!

     
     
    >>> More PHP Articles          >>> More By icarus, (c) Melonfire
     

       

    PHP ARTICLES

    - Getting Data from Yahoo Site Explorer Inboun...
    - Method Chaining: Adding More Selecting Metho...
    - How to Split a File During an FTP Upload Usi...
    - Expanding a Custom CodeIgniter Library with ...
    - Using the Yahoo Site Explorer Inbound Links ...
    - Building a CodeIgniter Custom Library with M...
    - Building an E-mini Trading System Using PHP ...
    - Completing the MySQL Class with Method Chain...
    - Building Dynamic Queries with Chainable Meth...
    - PHP Encryption and Decryption Methods
    - Building a MySQL Abstraction Class with Meth...
    - Completing a Sample String Processor with Me...
    - Mastering WHILE Loops for PHP and MySQL
    - Method Chaining: Adding More Methods to the ...
    - Method Chaining in PHP 5





    © 2003-2009 by Developer Shed. All rights reserved. DS Cluster 3 Hosted by Hostway
    For more Enterprise Application Development news, visit eWeek