Apache log4php integration

NOTE: If you'd like to log via Redis, check out my custom version of log4php on Github.

Overview

This module is designed to centralize the logging functionality of Drupal into a single module replacement for watchdog, reducing the overall burden of maintaining Drupal modules simply to support multiple watchdog backends. Apache log4php is a common-purpose library that allows messages to be logged to a wide variety of backends and provides much more granular control than Drupal's built-in capabilities.

Apache log4php™ is a versatile logging framework for PHP.

Feature highlights:

• Configuration through XML, properties or PHP files
• Various logging destinations, including:
• Console (stdout, stderr)
• Files (including daily and rolling files)
• Email
• Databases
• Sockets
• Syslog
• Several built-in log message formats, including:
• HTML
• XML
• User defined pattern

Features

This module provides simple integration with the Apache log4php library.

Requirements

This module requires the log4php library. This can be installed in one of two ways -

• The preferred installation method is via PEAR -
  

  pear channel-discover pear.apache.org/log4php
  pear install log4php/Apache_log4php

• Alternatively the main code files can be installed via the Libraries module. Move the src/main/php directory to sites/all/libraries/log4php.

Installation

After creating an XML configuration file, include it in your settings.php file -

  $conf['log4php_config'] = 'sites/all/modules/log4php/log4php.xml';

The default log4php.xml file is a basic configuration to test functionality. This configuration only writes log entries to a file located in the temp directory (will only work on Linux/Unix/Mac for now).

Recommended modules

• Libraries (1.x only, for now)