Re: real time output from log file?

Richard Lynch wrote:

On Mon, April 17, 2006 11:45 am, Jason Gerfen wrote:

Anyone use php to tail a log file for patterns and perhaps updating a iframe or something similar? If so do you have a link to some resources on it?

No, but I don't see how you could make this much more complicated than: <html> <head><meta http-equiv="refresh" url="0;httpd_error_log_tail.php" /></head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff">

    <?php
      exec("tail /var/log/httpd/error_log", $output, $error);
      echo nl2br(htmlentities(implode("", $output)));
      if ($error) echo "<hr /><b>OS Error: $error</b>\n";
    ?>

</body> </html> But maybe I'm just too much a K.I.S.S. kind of guy...

which has nothing to do with the Oprah show about sex-addicts I just half-watched. :-)

Though why one wouldn't juse use SSH to do this in the first place is beyond me...

I second that.

But they had guys at an old job that did this, after I turned OFF display_output on their production server... [shudder]

I guess Richard's had another long day ... display_output? maybe display_errors? or was the stuff those guys produced so bad that a blank page was preferable? ;-)