RE: [PHP] Re: MySQL - PHP combined log

>><clipped> >>>>how about this curve... getting PHP to append a line to the apache log. >>> >>>How about reading the documentation? >> >>Deserved that for not being clear enough... see below. > >My apologies if I missed the word "access log" or even assumed you meant >"error log" when you just said "log." I shouldn't have. RTFM never hurt anyone :) >You're right, you can't do that, without opening up security more than you >want to. > >*ACTUALLY*... > >There *probably* is an Apache function for access logs just like the error >logging one that PHP is using, and you could *PROBABLY* patch PHP with some >dead-easy copy&paste to use it, and you could even submit that worthy patch >to the PHP Group. I suspect it's not there only because nobody really saw a >need for it. I've never had a use for it untill now, wanting to charge a customer for massive uploads via file_upload forms... transfer that is not recorded in the apache logs and therefor not collected for billable bandwidth (while still preserving IP addresses and avoiding a ipfw counting per IP). Probably a requirement with limited scope. >It's kinda icky that you'd almost have to use 4 (the next unused number) for >"Apache access log" with 0 being "Apache error log" and 1,2,3 being other >stuff between... Maybe -1 for "access log"? Ewwwww. That's not >'right' >either, but maybe it's 'less wrong' than 4. icky, I agree >Damn things shouldn't have been magic numbers in the first place. Should be >constants. Hey, while you're in there, make up some decent constant names >and let's migrate to them and then deprecate the magic numbers and fix it >right :-) :) >Another option might involve some sort of nasty named pipe stuff and >redirection and whatnot, and you *MIGHT* be able to have a "file" that you >error_log into, but it really just ends up going into the Apache log... >There may be some risk of corrupting your access log, however, if any >incredibly *HUGE* entry over-steps the atomicity threshold for file >appending in Linux... sounds like a nest of potential problems >Not so sure it's a Good Idea anyway to have two programs trying to write to >the same file at once if it can be avoided. thus the interim solution of having PHP write to a seperate log file, then doing a merge/sort during rotation time. Will look into it to see if something can be presented without creating more problems than the solution is worth. Cheers, Dave