Displaying the error in production mode with log number in laravel

Question

I have an application built in laravel 5.8 which is in production mode. As the site is live I don't want to display any errors to our users. But If some error occurs then I want the log number or any reference that indicates what error was thrown at that particular time.

So I wanted to know if there is any way to display "Oops something went wrong ref#123456" to our users. So that they can send us a screenshot or reference number and we can track what actually happend by checking our log file.

Thanks in advance. Happy coding.

Answer 1

I thing that you can do it saving the logs in database and render its id.

You can do it in App\Exceptions\Handler: https://laravel.com/docs/5.8/errors

For example:

    /**
     * Render an exception into an HTTP response.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
     * @param  \Throwable  $exception
     * @return \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response
     *
     * @throws \Throwable
     */
    public function render($request, Throwable $exception)
    {
        // Create log in db
        $log = Log::create([
            'message' => $exception->getMessage(), 
            'code' => $exception->getCode(),
            'line' => $exception->getLine(),
        ]);

        // Print log id in logs
        logger("LogId {$log->id}");

        //Return view error with log id
        return return response()->view('errors', ['logId' => $log->id]);
    }