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Yii2 Application Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Yii2 Application Development Cookbook Discover 100 useful recipes that will bring the best out of the Yii2 framework and be on the bleeding edge of web development today

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785281761
Length 584 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Dmitry Eliseev Dmitry Eliseev
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Andrew Bogdanov Andrew Bogdanov
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Preface 1. Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 2. Routing, Controllers, and Views 3. ActiveRecord, Model, and Database 4. Forms 5. Security 6. RESTful Web Services 7. Official Extensions 8. Extending Yii 9. Performance Tuning 10. Deployment 11. Testing 12. Debugging, Logging, and Error Handling Index

Using different log routes

Logging is the key to understanding what your application actually does when you have no chance to debug it. Believe it or not, even if you are 100% sure that the application will behave as expected, in production, it can do many things you were not aware of. This is OK, as no one can be aware of everything. Therefore, if we are expecting unusual behavior, we need to know about it as soon as possible and have enough details to reproduce it. This is where logging comes in handy.

Yii allows a developer not only to log messages but also to handle them differently depending on the message level and category. You can, for example, write a message to the database, send an e-mail, or just show it in the browser.

In this recipe, we will handle log messages in a wise manner: the most important message will be sent through an e-mail, less important messages will be saved in files A and B, and the profiling will be routed to Firebug. Additionally, in a development mode, all...

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