Zend Framework 101: Zend_Log
This article is part of the series “Zend Framework 101”.
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Introduction
This article shows you how to use Zend_Log, the logging component of the Zend Framework. It allows you to record messages from your application however you please. In this article I will show you how to record messages to a log file.
Additionally, if you use the Firebug and FirePHP plug-ins for Firefox, Zend_Log can be extremely useful for application development and debugging. I will also show you how to achieve this.
This article requires Zend Framework, downloadable from http://framework.zend.com. At time of writing, the current version of Zend Framework is 1.7.8. Additionally, later in the article you will need to be using Firefox with the Firebug and FirePHP plug-ins.