Logging PHP fatal-errors in CakePHP system

Question

I need to log Fatal-errors of my website.

I normally check error.log and debug.log files for CakePHP errors.
But I found out that PHP related fatal errors aren't logged someplace.
It is also discussed in this thread.

I checked php.ini. IT has following lines:

log_errors = On
;error_log = filename

I don't have rights to change php.ini. I can ask admin to change this, but it seems like I need to ask him every time I need a change :) I also have concerns about performance. Whether logging errors can decrease performance or not?

So I find out that I can put following two lines inside my script to log errors and change folder or file name when I need.

ini_set("log_errors", 1);
ini_set("error_log", "/path/to/php-error.log");

So I want to know where to put this lines inside my codes? Should I put it inside AppController::beforeFilter ? Or is there a better place/solution in CakePHP 2 configuration?

Answer 1

There is framework defined configuration settings. You can use the Error Handling configuration class.

Here is changing fatal error behavior link, that will help you to achieve the same.

Answer 2

this is an old thread. in the meantime with cake 2.x errors are all logged in productive mode - so also fatal errors.

trigger one and check out your /tmp/logs/error.log

but you can easily find that out looking at the core code: https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/blob/master/lib/Cake/Error/ErrorHandler.php#L189

Answer 3

register_shutdown_function();

http://php.net/manual/en/function.register-shutdown-function.php