Want to log script activity in your Web application, but haveno clue where to begin? Take our handy tour of PHP's logging functions,and find out how simple it really is.
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.
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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!