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Logger settings

We can enable/disable logger using configuration settings/configuration/logger.php. We can also specify where log should stored and how log file should be rotated.

Enable/Disable

Using enable setting we can enable or disable logger within our application. Value should be boolean. When logger is disabled, trying log message results in an exception.

Log to file or database

We can store in log in file or database, this can done by setting type. Value of this setting can be file or db.

Log location file

Use path setting to set path where log messages should be logged. Here path must be directory. path setting is applicable for log type file.

Log location DB

Section db contains setting to log messages in db. This is applicable only when log type is db. See below settings

Name Description
connection Database connection name. Keep it null to use default database connection.
table Table name where log should be logged.

Table strcture for log(MySQL database):

CREATE TABLE `RequestLog` (
  `requestLogId` bigint(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `type` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `message` text,
  `createdAt` datetime DEFAULT NULL
  PRIMARY KEY (`requestLogId`)
) DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1
Log rotations

Logging all logs into one files results in big file. Log file should be rotated date, week or monthly. Means there shoulld new log file after some duration. Nishchay allow to define this duration. Suppose if we set log to rotated to daily, then new log file will be created daily with file name as date in Y-m-d format.

Log rotation options.

Name Description
date New log file will be created daily
week New Log file will be created weekly and file name will date of first day of week.
biweek To create log file every 15 days. File name will be for the first 15 day Y-m-1 and another 15 days it will be Y-m-16.
month To create log file once a month and in this case log file name will be first date for month.

Log files are created in Y-m-d format only.