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Calamity Jane
Calamity Jane

Reputation: 2686

Where does php cli log errors on a Mac 10.15

I develop a local script quick & dirty and let it run on the command line. I have no server installed.

My php ini lies at /usr/local/etc/php/7.4/php.ini

I activated the error log by using

error_reporting = E_ALL
display_errors = On
log_errors = On
error_log = /var/log/php_errors.log

I saved the changes but don't find a log written at /var/log/php_errors.log

What do I have to do to get my errors logged in a file?

Output of

$ php --ini
Configuration File (php.ini) Path: /usr/local/etc/php/7.4
Loaded Configuration File:         /usr/local/etc/php/7.4/php.ini
Scan for additional .ini files in: /usr/local/etc/php/7.4/conf.d
Additional .ini files parsed:      /usr/local/etc/php/7.4/conf.d/ext-opcache.ini


$ which php
/usr/local/bin/php

Upvotes: 2

Views: 896

Answers (1)

phi ARCHITECT
phi ARCHITECT

Reputation: 59

My understanding is that the php cli outputs errors to the command line in much the same way as a bash script. Therefore you can output your errors to your own log file in the same way.

Here is a simple script file error_test.php which which has two commands. First echoes a string - second echoes an undefined variable which will create an error:

<?php

echo "hello\n";
echo $test;

run the script as

php error_test.php

and it will output the following:

hello
PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: test in /home/phi/Projects/sandbox/error_test.php on line 3

Like a bash script, we can redirect the stderr output to a file with 2>

php error_test.php 2> error.log
cat error.log

This replaces the log file each time the command is run. To append the errors to the log file use 2>>.

php error_test.php 2>> error.log

To ignore errors, redirect to /dev/null

php error_test.php 2>> /dev/null

Upvotes: 0

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