I have been working on my website for over a year now and I really want to finally release it for people. However, it has become quite large - I almost want to say out of my control, and besides, I'm really just an amateur programmer.
Therefore, I want to be sure that any errors that php produces are logged in the file, so I can access this file and track errors.
Currently my settings are as follows:
<?php error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set('display_errors', '0'); ini_set('log_errors', 1); ini_set('error_log', 'errors.log'); ?>
Works fine so far, my error.log file will contain things like this:
[14-May-2013 00:16:26] PHP note: Undefined variable: nonexistentvariable in /home/www/dir/index.php on line 14 [May 14, 2013 00:16:28] PHP note: Undefined variable : nonexistentvariable in /home/www/dir/index.php on line 14
Great, errors are logged.
But now I have a problem:
They are all on the same line, without interruptions. Hard to read. How to get each error on a new line?
I see that there is a timestamp. Awesome! How can I add things like user IP or any other user things?
Again, my questions are:
How to change the way php errors are written to the error log file? In particular, how can I create a new line after each registered error, so that the error.log file is easier to read. And how can I add user data and values like IP addresses?
ANSWER: I ended up doing the following - it seems to reproduce somewhat what php does by standard, and can be changed.
<?php function my_error_handler($type, $message, $file, $line, $vars) { switch($type) { case 1: // 1 // $type_str = 'ERROR'; break; case 2: // 2 // $type_str = 'WARNING'; break; case 4: // 4 // $type_str = 'PARSE'; break; case 8: // 8 // $type_str = 'NOTICE'; break; case 16: // 16 // $type_str = 'CORE_ERROR'; break; case 32: // 32 // $type_str = 'CORE_WARNING'; break; case 64: // 64 // $type_str = 'COMPILE_ERROR'; break; case 128: // 128 // $type_str = 'COMPILE_WARNING'; break; case 256: // 256 // $type_str = 'USER_ERROR'; break; case 512: // 512 // $type_str = 'USER_WARNING'; break; case 1024: // 1024 // $type_str = 'USER_NOTICE'; break; case 2048: // 2048 // $type_str = 'STRICT'; break; case 4096: // 4096 // $type_str = 'RECOVERABLE_ERROR'; break; case 8192: // 8192 // $type_str = 'DEPRECATED'; break; case 16384: // 16384 // $type_str = 'USER_DEPRECATED'; break; } $errormessage = '[ '.date(r).' ] '.$type_str.': '.$message.' in '.$file.' on line '.$line."\n"; // for development simply ECHO $errormessage; $file = 'my_errors.log'; file_put_contents($file, $errormessage, FILE_APPEND); } error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set('display_errors', '0'); set_error_handler('my_error_handler'); ?>