How to do error logging in CodeIgniter

Question

I want error logging in PHP CodeIgniter. How do I enable error logging? What are all the steps to log an error and How do you e-mail that error to an email address?

Answer 1

Hello @kartik,

CodeIgniter has some error logging functions built in.

• Make your /application/logs folder writable
• In /application/config/config.php set
  $config['log_threshold'] = 1;
  or use a higher number, depending on how much detail you want in your logs
• Use log_message('error', 'Some variable did not contain a value.');
• To send an email you need to extend the core CI_Exceptions class method log_exceptions().