[pmwiki-users] [PHP] Re: debugging using error_log stuff

[Tamara Temple]

On Jun 13, 2011, at 4:05 AM, Richard Quadling wrote:

> On 12 June 2011 22:57, Tamara Temple <tamouse.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Jun 12, 2011, at 4:32 PM, Peter Bowers wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Tamara Temple <tamouse.lists at gmail.com 
>>> >
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> function sms($text,$switch=0){
>>>>       global $MessagesFmt;
>>>>       error_log(date(DATE_RFC822)." Entered sms. text=$text.
>>>> switch=$switch\n",3,"/var/log/pmwiki/error.log");
>>>>       if ($switch == true || is_array($text)) {
>>>>               $MessagesFmt[] = "<pre>" . print_r($text,true) .
>>>> "</pre>\n";
>>>>       } else {
>>>>               $MessagesFmt[] = $text . "<br />\n";
>>>>       }
>>>
>>> #       error_log(date(DATE_RFC822)." Exit sms.\n");
>>>      error_log(date(DATE_RFC822)." Exit
>>> sms.\n",3,"/var/log/pmwiki/error.log");
>>>>
>>>> }
>>>
>>> Missing arguments #2 and #3 -- try as modified above.
>>>
>>> -Peter
>>
>> D'oh. Sometimes you stare and stare and stare at something and you  
>> still
>> don't see it. Thanks a bunch.
>>
>
> Would the use of ...
>
> error_reporting(-1);
> ini_set('display_errors', 1);
>
> have helped during your development?

I'm not sure it would have in this case, as there were no errors from  
the PHP side of things -- what I had done was perfectly acceptable to  
PHP. error_log doesn't require the last 2 arguments and did send the  
message to the PHP error log with no problems. I just wasn't looking  
there...

I do set those values when I'm developing and testing an application  
typically, though, so that is good advice in general.