creating a dynamic log file...

[phyzar]

Greetings,
I used to post alot on devshed, but looks like they dropped their forum... their loss. 😛

I have the following in a php script...

//CREATE LOG FILE
	$dd=date("d F Y H:i");
	$fp = fopen ("../files/mylogfile.log", "a");
	fputs ($fp, "$taga||:order details:|$order \n $dd");
	fclose ($fp);

hacked back but you get the general idea. This creates the log on our secure space. However you can reference this log even from a browser, if you know which URL to enter.

My thought would be to create a *.log file which is different and unique each time it is created - using the UNIX timestamp / MD5 checksum or something as the file name.

Can someone please point me in the direction of creating such a thing?

many thanks
JD

PS: great to join this site!

[biggus]

you could just put the files in a directory that's not accessible from a browser, but php can write to, say "/myLogs", where it's at the root level of your filesystem. then fopen("/myLogs/mylogfile","a+")...

Biggus

[phyzar]

great idea!
in the end i used a .htaccess file which protected the folder all the files were in with:

deny from all

Thanks heaps!
JD