How to do error logging in plugin?

ffunnyman

Can anyone point me in the right direction for writing to vanilla's error log when there is an error in a plugin?

S

/conf/config.php
$Configuration['Garden']['Errors']['LogEnabled'] = TRUE; $Configuration['Garden']['Errors']['LogFile'] = 'logs/error-log'; $Configuration['Garden']['Errors']['MasterView'] = 'deverror.master.php';

ffunnyman

Yep that should set it up. How does one go about getting content into it.
if it were java I would do...
Logger logger = Logger.getLogger("package.classname");

if(error condition){
logger.error("Descriptive error text here to track down problem.");
}

UnderDog

You want to log errors from your plugin into the logs/error-log textfile
Good question. Maybe it's in the /docs how to do that, otherwise it should be in there (after we've figured it out how it works :-) )

ffunnyman

You want to log errors from your plugin into the logs/error-log textfile
Good question. Maybe it's in the /docs how to do that, otherwise it should be in there (after we've figured it out how it works :-) )

@Todd I see you're working on documentation

ffunnyman

@Lincon Could you provide any guidance/best practices?

Linc

I'm not entirely sure, but I think what you want is:

throw new Exception($Msg, $Code);

$Code is optional and would be something like '404' if it's a page not found (and would redirect to that route accordingly), and the message would be what gets logged. I think? Have never looked at the error log, honestly, just shooting blindly based on the code I've seen.

ffunnyman

Thanks. I'll try playing around with it and see what happens.