[TYPO3-dev] Syslog confusion

[Francois Suter]

Hi all,

As I was poking around TCEmain I found a confusing situation with system 
logging. TYPO3 comes with a sys_log table that can be viewing using the 
BE Log module. TCEmain defines a log() method which inserts entries 
directly into the sys_log table.

OTOH we have a sysLog() method in t3lib_div, which doesn't write to the 
sys_log table at all (although it could with a hook). 
t3lib_div::sysLog() has a lot options for filtering based on severity 
levels, sending notices by mail, etc.

I find this situation somewhat confusing. How about making 
t3lib_div::sysLog() capable of writing to the sys_log table and have 
TCEmain call that method instead of it's own log()? Does that make 
sense? One issue is that the log() method accepts far more parameters 
that t3lib_div::sysLog()...

Maybe the simpler solution is just to add a hook inside TCEmain's log().

Cheers

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Francois Suter
Cobweb Development Sarl - http://www.cobweb.ch