In CodeIgniter 4, error reporting is a crucial feature that allows developers to track errors and exceptions that occur within their applications. By default, error logging is disabled, but you can enable it through a simple configuration change. This guide will walk you through the process of enabling and disabling error logs in your CodeIgniter 4 application.
Steps to Enable and Disable Error Reporting Log
Enabling Error Reporting Logging
To enable error logging in CodeIgniter 4, follow these steps:
Open the Configuration File
- Navigate to the
app/Config/Logger.phpfile in your CodeIgniter 4 application. - Open this file in a text editor.
- Navigate to the
Set the Log Threshold
- Locate the
$thresholdproperty in theLoggerclass. By default, this is set to0, which means logging is disabled. - Change the value of
$thresholdto a higher number to enable logging. The values represent different levels of logging:1– Logs only critical errors.2– Logs critical errors and warnings.3– Logs critical errors, warnings, and notices.4– Logs all errors, warnings, notices, and info messages.
- Locate the
Example:
public $threshold = 4;
Save the Configuration File
- Save your changes to the
Logger.phpfile.
- Save your changes to the
After these steps, any errors occurring in your application will be logged to the writable/logs directory.
Disabling Error Reporting Logging
If you need to disable error logging in CodeIgniter 4, you can revert the log threshold to 0. Here’s how:
Open the Configuration File
- Navigate to the
app/Config/Logger.phpfile in your application. - Open this file in a text editor.
- Navigate to the
Set the Log Threshold
- Locate the
$thresholdproperty in theLoggerclass. - Change the value of
$thresholdto0to disable logging.
- Locate the
Example:
public $threshold = 0;
Save the Configuration File
- Save your changes to the
Logger.phpfile.
- Save your changes to the
With these changes, error logging will be disabled, and no new error logs will be written to the writable/logs directory.
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