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# error_log

(PHP 3 <= 3.0.18, PHP 4 >= 4.0.0)

error_log -- send an error message somewhere

## Description

``int error_log` (string message, int message_type [, string destination [, string extra_headers]])`

Sends an error message to the web server's error log, a TCP port or to a file. The first parameter, `message`, is the error message that should be logged. The second parameter, `message_type` says where the message should go:

Table 1. error_log() log types

0 | `message` is sent to PHP's system logger, using the Operating System's system logging mechanism or a file, depending on what the error_log configuration directive is set to.
1 | `message` is sent by email to the address in the `destination` parameter. This is the only message type where the fourth parameter, `extra_headers` is used. This message type uses the same internal function as mail() does.
2 | `message` is sent through the PHP debugging connection. This option is only available if remote debugging has been enabled. In this case, the `destination` parameter specifies the host name or IP address and optionally, port number, of the socket receiving the debug information.
3 | `message` is appended to the file `destination`.

Warning
Remote debugging via TCP/IP is a PHP 3 feature that is not available in PHP 4.

Example 1. error_log() examples
    // Send notification through the server log if we can not
    // connect to the database.
    if (!Ora_Logon ($username, $password)) {
        error_log ("Oracle database not available!", 0);
    }

    // Notify administrator by email if we run out of FOO
    if (!($foo = allocate_new_foo()) {
        error_log ("Big trouble, we're all out of FOOs!", 1,
                   "operator@mydomain.com");
    }

    // other ways of calling error_log():
    error_log ("You messed up!", 2, "127.0.0.1:7000");
    error_log ("You messed up!", 2, "loghost");
    error_log ("You messed up!", 3, "/var/tmp/my-errors.log");

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