How to log errors and warnings into a file?

Question

How to turn on all error and warnings and log them to a file but to set up all of that within the script (not changing anything in php.ini). I want to define a file name and so that all errors and warnings get logged into it.

Answer 1

Take a look at the log_errors configuration option in php.ini. It seems to do just what you want to. I think you can use the error_log option to set your own logging file too.

When the log_errors directive is set to On, any errors reported by PHP would be logged to the server log or the file specified with error_log. You can set these options with ini_set too, if you need to.

(Please note that display_errors should be disabled in php.ini if this option is enabled)

Answer 2

See

• error_log — Send an error message somewhere

Example

error_log("You messed up!", 3, "/var/tmp/my-errors.log");

You can customize error handling with your own error handlers to call this function for you whenever an error or warning or whatever you need to log occurs. For additional information, please refer to the Chapter Error Handling in the PHP Manual

Answer 3

Use the following code:

ini_set("log_errors", 1);
ini_set("error_log", "/tmp/php-error.log");
error_log( "Hello, errors!" );

Then watch the file:

tail -f /tmp/php-error.log

Or update php.ini as described in this blog entry from 2008.

Answer 4

In addition, you need the "AllowOverride Options" directive for this to work. (Apache 2.2.15)

Answer 5

add this code in .htaccess (as an alternative of php.ini / ini_set function):

<IfModule mod_php5.c>
php_flag log_errors on 
php_value error_log ./path_to_MY_PHP_ERRORS.log
</IfModule>

p.s. this is for Apache-type servers.

Answer 6

That's my personal short function

# logging
/*
[2017-03-20 3:35:43] [INFO] [file.php] Here we are
[2017-03-20 3:35:43] [ERROR] [file.php] Not good
[2017-03-20 3:35:43] [DEBUG] [file.php] Regex empty

mylog ('hallo') -> INFO
mylog ('fail', 'e') -> ERROR
mylog ('next', 'd') -> DEBUG
mylog ('next', 'd', 'debug.log') -> DEBUG file debug.log
*/
function mylog($text, $level='i', $file='logs') {
    switch (strtolower($level)) {
        case 'e':
        case 'error':
            $level='ERROR';
            break;
        case 'i':
        case 'info':
            $level='INFO';
            break;
        case 'd':
        case 'debug':
            $level='DEBUG';
            break;
        default:
            $level='INFO';
    }
    error_log(date("[Y-m-d H:i:s]")."\t[".$level."]\t[".basename(__FILE__)."]\t".$text."\n", 3, $file);
}