Comments on: 3 Ways to Monitor PHP Errors

By: Jeff Starr

Jeff Starr — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:29:37 +0000

Not sure.. perhaps the original file did not make it to the server?

By: Wes

Wes — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:24:13 +0000

I tried the first method, I straight cut and pasted in the code. When I tried to log into the back-end I got a 404. I went back and undid what I had changed and still no luck. Any idea why?

By: Jeff Starr

Jeff Starr — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:44:57 +0000

Looks awesome, Steve. I am a huge fan of logging errors and other data, so this is a real treat. During my next excursion into PHP error-logging, I will be implementing and testing your script. Hopefully I will be able to contribute something useful, perhaps even transform it into plugin. I am sure that it would benefit many WordPress users. Thanks for sharing! :)

By: Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:44:40 +0000

Thanks for these tips Jeff. As I got error logging set up on my sites, I decided to knock out a quick way to keep an eye on them: a dashboard widget. It’s pretty rough, and I’ve not found time to wrap it up into a plugin. Just code for a custom theme’s functions.php.

It has some kinks, like simplistically treating line breaks as delimiters for the errors (I’ve had repeated SQL syntax errors where the line breaks in the reported SQL result in more “errors” than there actually are). But I’m finding it a useful addition to the above techniques. If anyone develops it into (or comes up with) something better – a plugin, an email option, etc. – that’d be great.

By: Glance World

Glance World — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:28:37 +0000

Thanks for sharing this coll tip.

By: harley34

harley34 — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:15:49 +0000

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By: Jeff Starr

Jeff Starr — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:58:13 +0000

would love to see an actual tutorial on this.

By: cruncher

cruncher — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:48:53 +0000

its not too hard to set up a cron job to run a php script that would email the contents of the error log to you. and it wouldnt be that much further to also filter out the errors by server log date so you only got the results relevant to that day/week/whatever time period you need. combine these all together and you have a great way to make sure your website is running smoothly

By: security locks

security locks — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:02:30 +0000

Great content, very helpfull. The web needs more great sites like this.

By: Andy H

Andy H — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:36:38 +0000

C’mon guys :) It’s not that far… I get my statistics mailed me every week I know wouldn’t check them so often.