(PHP 4, PHP 5)
error_log — Send an error message to the defined error handling routines
Description
bool error_log
( string
$message
[, int $message_type
= 0
[, string $destination
[, string $extra_headers
]]] )
Sends an error message to the web server's error log or to a file.
Parameters
-
message
- The error message that should be logged.
-
message_type
- Says where the error should go. The possible message types are as follows:
error_log() log types 0 message
is sent to PHP's system logger, using the Operating System's system logging mechanism or a file, depending on what the error_log configuration directive is set to. This is the default option.1 message
is sent by email to the address in thedestination
parameter. This is the only message type where the fourth parameter,extra_headers
is used.2 No longer an option. 3 message
is appended to the filedestination
. A newline is not automatically added to the end of themessage
string.4 message
is sent directly to the SAPI logging handler. -
destination
- The destination. Its meaning depends on the
message_type
parameter as described above. -
extra_headers
- The extra headers. It's used when the
message_type
parameter is set to 1. This message type uses the same internal function as mail() does.
Notes
Warning
error_log() is not binary safe.
message
will be truncated by null character.
Tip
message
should not contain null character. Note that message
may be sent to file, mail, syslog, etc. Use appropriate conversion/escape function, base64_encode(), rawurlencode() or addslashes() before calling error_log().Email PHP errors instead of displaying it
By default, most servers are set to display an error message when an error occured in one of your script. For security reasons, you may want to get an email with the error, instead of displaying it to the public.<?php // Our custom error handler function nettuts_error_handler($number, $message, $file, $line, $vars){ $email = " <p>An error ($number) occurred on line <strong>$line</strong> and in the <strong>file: $file.</strong> <p> $message </p>"; $email .= "<pre>" . print_r($vars, 1) . "</pre>"; $headers = 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n"; // Email the error to someone... error_log($email, 1, 'you@youremail.com', $headers); // Make sure that you decide how to respond to errors (on the user's side) // Either echo an error message, or kill the entire project. Up to you... // The code below ensures that we only "die" if the error was more than // just a NOTICE. if ( ($number !== E_NOTICE) && ($number < 2048) ) { die("There was an error. Please try again later."); } } // We should use our custom function to handle errors. set_error_handler('nettuts_error_handler'); // Trigger an error... (var doesn't exist) echo $somevarthatdoesnotexist;