Logging With PHP - Closing Time

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And that's about it for the moment. In this article, I offered you a brief overview of logging in PHP, demonstrating how you can use built-in functions, off-the-shelf libraries or your own code to easily and efficiently create logs of the activity taking place in your application. I demonstrated logging to a file, to a database, to an email address and to the console, and wrapped things up with a couple of simple examples that demonstrated how logs could be built and analyzed in a real-world application.

I hope you enjoyed reading this article as much as I enjoyed writing it. If you'd like to know more about the topics discussed in the previous pages, here are some links you should bookmark:

PHP file manipulation functions, at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php

PHP mail functions, at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php

PHP MySQL functions, at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mysql.php

PHP error logging functions, at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.errorfunc.php

The PHP Log class, at http://pear.php.net/package-info.php?package=Log

PEAR, at http://pear.php.net

Till next time...stay healthy!

Note: All examples in this article have been tested on Linux/i586 with PHP 4.2.3. Examples are illustrative only, and are not meant for a production environment. Melonfire provides no warranties or support for the source code described in this article. YMMV!

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