Re: real time output from log file?

Richard Lynch wrote:

On Mon, April 17, 2006 6:19 pm, Jochem Maas wrote:

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? ;-)

Actually, now that I think about it... Maybe we need a new directive in php.ini :-)

I dare you to ask on php-internals ;-)

;Turns off all output to browser ;Useful when somebody realizes how bad their software really is ;Or when they get sued for same ;display_output = On :-) :-) :-) The REALLY scary thing was their application was all about people's medical records and insurance -- so they were "HIPPA compliant". Don't even ask me how display_errors on production boxes seemed OK with "HIPPA compliant" software in ANYBODY's brain, cuz I just don't get it... PS In retrospect, I turned off display_errors on all servers, production and dev, because they had no way to detect production versus dev in the first place, in a meaningful way to have them behave differently. I think I fixed that problem next, and would have turned display_errors back on, but they already had their "tail.php" script, and it avoided a lot of questions from programmers too naive to do "View Source"

the only thing that annoys me is that these numpties probably earn twice what I do, pay a third the price for their cars and drive from one end of the american continent to the other for the same price as I pay in petrol (gas) to sit in traffic for 5 minutes. (teach me to be european I guess ;-) and boy do I need (read want) a new car :-P

I also turned on E_NOTICE in the same time frame, so they had a LOT of bugs to fix :-)

thanks for another great story from the trenches Richard :-)