[RESOLVED] log file type thing

Desbrina

Currently i have a script that runs every 15 mins via cron which emails me.
I'm looking at an alternative so that i dont get lots of emails every day. Something like a file being writting to, showing the script name (since more than one is ran) and the date/time it was ran

Is there a way of doing this?

NogDog

One simple solution would be to use the [man]error_log/man function instead of maile(), specifying a '3' for the 2nd parameter and the target file name for the 3rd (being sure to terminate the message in the first parameter with a newline).

Desbrina

ok, i've had a look at its doing what i want

I have a question about the time part of it though

Its currently displaying the server time, not my local time

The example on phps site shows to use

date_default_timezone_set('UTC');

but i get an error with it

Call to undefined function: date_default_timezone_set()

this is the code i'm using

date_default_timezone_set('GMT');
error_log('Sucessfully ran on '.date("d-m-Y - G:i").'
', 3, 'email_files/log.php');

NogDog

The error is probably due to [man]date_default_timezone_set/man only being available in PHP 5.1.0 or later. If the intent is to use GMT, then the simple solution would be to use [man]gmdate/man instead of [man]date/man.

Desbrina

thats strange, since the hosting i'm with says they use PHP 5.2.4