_PHP-logging.md

PHP Logging

Some background/options:

1. http://pear.php.net/package/Log
2. https://github.com/Seldaek/monolog
3. https://github.com/katzgrau/KLogger
4. https://bitbucket.org/huntlyc/simple-php-logger
5. https://github.com/jbroadway/analog

Refs:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/341154/php-logging-framework

composer.json

{
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "pear",
            "url": "http://pear.php.net"
        }
    ],
    "require": {
        "pear-pear/Log": "*"
    }
}

test-log.php

<?php

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

$conf = array('mode' => 0600, 'timeFormat' => '%X %x');
$logger = &Log::singleton('file', 'out.log', 'ident', $conf);
for ($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++) {
    $logger->log("Log entry $i");
}

/**
# cat out.log
16:08:06 12/04/13 ident [info] Log entry 0
16:08:06 12/04/13 ident [info] Log entry 1
16:08:06 12/04/13 ident [info] Log entry 2
16:08:06 12/04/13 ident [info] Log entry 3
16:08:06 12/04/13 ident [info] Log entry 4
16:08:06 12/04/13 ident [info] Log entry 5
16:08:06 12/04/13 ident [info] Log entry 6
16:08:06 12/04/13 ident [info] Log entry 7
16:08:06 12/04/13 ident [info] Log entry 8
16:08:06 12/04/13 ident [info] Log entry 9
*/