[development] New Drupal Logging to text file Module

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

On Feb 11, 2008 10:04 AM, Ian Bezanson <irb at ianbezanson.ca> wrote:

> Ah, gotcha!
>
> Thanks Khalid, I agree that this will be the best method for Drupal 6.x
> +.  I likely will leave my release as an option for Drupal 5.x (and not
> bother porting it to 6), as I know that we've found it quite handy.
> I'll take a peek into the new functionality as we progress towards
> Drupal 6.
>

Check the links I sent.

The new hook for D6 is available for D5. Bryght (now RainCity Studios)
sponsored the work on this because they saw a lot of value in easing
the load off the database.

So those who will use that for D5 have an assured migration path
to D6.

But your module is a dead end for D5.

Leave it out there, but point to the alternatives, caveats, options, ...etc.

>
> I appreciate the info.
>
> On Mon, 2008-11-02 at 09:58 -0500, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> > Ian
> >
> > The correct way to do this is to use the new watchdog hook that made
> > it
> > to Drupal 6.
> >
> > Here is the API call
> > http://api.drupal.org/?q=api/function/hook_watchdog/HEAD
> >
> > There are already standards in place for alert levels that the above
> > hook
> > and modules that call it can use.
> >
> > There is a backport of that to Drupal 5.x here
> > http://drupal.org/node/149341
> >
> > The syslog module in the above patch, and in D6 can already log to
> > a flat file, and the output is themable so you can format it however
> > you like.
> >
> > Here is an example module that does logging to email per severity
> > level.
> > http://drupal.org/project/logging_alerts
> >
> > On Feb 11, 2008 8:03 AM, Ian Bezanson <irb at ianbezanson.ca> wrote:
> >         And again...
> >
> >         The company I work for bases all of our projects on the Drupal
> >         infratructure.  The watchdog application simply doesn't work
> >         for us, so
> >         I'd created a module to log messages to file in the format:
> >
> >         00:00:58 [module::function_name][LOG_LEVEL]: Checking to see
> >         if user
> >         0c2f977cc24e4e41d8cd6d9a4099ab0b is anonymous.
> >
> >         We've decided that this is likely a worthwhile project to
> >         release to the
> >         community, so I am currently working on a release.  Right now,
> >         I have a
> >         group of Log Levels (FATAL, ERROR, WARN, INFO, DEBUG, TRACE),
> >         one log
> >         type (DRUPAL_BASE) and the ability to add/configure more.
> >
> >         The site admin can configure whether or not to turn on
> >         logging, a
> >         minimum log level to write out, where the log files should
> >         live, etc.
> >
> >         I will send another message once the initial release is made,
> >         but wanted
> >         to gauge what people thought about this module.  It's more of
> >         a
> >         developer's module, as it requires developers to add a hook,
> >         such as:
> >          drupal_log_to_file("MODULE_NAME::FUNCTION_NAME", "LOG_TYPE",
> >         LOG_LEVEL, "MESSAGE")
> >
> >         into their code, in order for the system to log anything.
> >
> >         Let me know anyone's thoughts :)
> >
> >         --
> >         Ian Bezanson
> >         irb at ianbezanson.ca
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Khalid M. Baheyeldin
> > 2bits.com, Inc.
> > http://2bits.com
> > Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.
> --
> Ian Bezanson
> irb at ianbezanson.ca
>



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Khalid M. Baheyeldin
2bits.com, Inc.
http://2bits.com
Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.
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