Equivalent of PHP error_log for info logs?

Question

I use error_log for my logging, but I'm realizing that there must be a more idiomatic way to log application progress. is there an info_log ? or equivalent ?

Answer 1

You can use error_log to append to a specified file.

error_log($myMessage, 3, 'my/file/path/log.txt'); 

Note that you need to have the 3 (message type) in order to append to the given file.

You can create a function early on in your script to wrap this functionality:

function log_message($message) {     error_log($message, 3, 'my/file/path/log.txt');    } 

Answer 2

The equivalent is syslog() with the LOG_INFO constant:

syslog(LOG_INFO, 'Message');

If you want to use a file (not a good idea because there is no log rotation and it can fail because of concurrency), you can do:

file_put_contents($filename, 'INFO Message', FILE_APPEND);