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Custom Logging Site Events

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To keep up on important incidents on your site without having to dig through server logs the alternative can be custom logs.

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  1. <?php
  2. // first we declare a class to handle the file operations.
  3. class logfile{
  4. function write($logString )
  5. {
  6.     if( $handle = @fopen( '../logs/actionLog.txt', 'a+' ) ) 
  7.     // this can be parameratized
  8.     {
  9.         $logString .="\n"; // insures each entry is on a new line
  10.         fputs( $handle, $logString, strlen($logString) );
  11.         fclose( $handle );
  12.         return( true );
  13.     }
  14.     else
  15.     {
  16.         return( false );
  17.     }
  18. }
  19. } // end logfile class
  20.  
  21. function logAction($job,$cd,$msg)
  22. {
  23.     // now we can create the custom code using the class
  24.     $msgTypes=explode(',',"INFO,PROGRESS,WARN,ERROR,SECURITY,INVALID"); 
  25.     //invalid must always be the last entry ... add more if needed
  26.     $cod = ($cd>=count($msgTypes)) ? (count($msgTypes) - 1) : $cd;
  27.     // If the code is invalid return INVALID as the message type
  28.     $dt=date("Y-m-d H:i:s"); 
  29.     // customize the date format to fit your requiremments
  30.     $theLog = new logfile();
  31.     // an instance of the logfile class
  32.     $msgStr=$msgTypes[$cod].'{'.$cd.'}: '.$job.': '.$dt.'>>> '.$msg; 
  33.     // create the log message
  34.     $theLog->write($msgStr); // this fires the file handling in the class
  35. }
  36. ?>

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