Logs

[infinite_root]

Hi Gurus out there,

I know this ain't the right forum for my question, nonetheless, just wanna make a good chance to be heard.

I have a requirement on logging chat sessions. I am using phpopenchat-3x but the program have no capabilities.

Anyone care to share your wisdom on this? In case you have encountered such a requirement. Or you may point me on the right track to accomplish my task.

Thanks and more power.

[sde]

do you want to log them to mysql? maybe you can add a function that triggers when a user sends a message. this function will just take the username and message and insert it into a table. the table can have a timestamp field to log the time.

is that what you're thinking of?

[idx]

http://pear.php.net/package/Log

I'd check out the logging pear class. You can select what type of log you want (file, sql, syslog, sqlite, mail, etc.) so if you ever need to change the format down the road it'll be much easier.

I haven't used this class yet, but from looking at the API in the past, it seemed very easy to integrate into any application.

-r

[sde]

ah good one! i've only browsed the pear repository .. i've never really implemented it. i'd probably save loads of time instead of writting everything from scratch.

[idx]

Originally posted by sde
ah good one! i've only browsed the pear repository .. i've never really implemented it. i'd probably save loads of time instead of writting everything from scratch.

Yes, I tend to do the same thing. Although I did have a project where I needed to do various kinds of date calculation. The Date/Calc.php class was very useful.

-r

[infinite_root]

Originally posted by idx
http://pear.php.net/package/Log

I'd check out the logging pear class. You can select what type of log you want (file, sql, syslog, sqlite, mail, etc.) so if you ever need to change the format down the road it'll be much easier.

I haven't used this class yet, but from looking at the API in the past, it seemed very easy to integrate into any application.

-r

Thanx very much for your help.

That's exactly what I need.