Error message format.

[crabfinger]

I want to create an error logger for a content management system I'm building, I just would like to know what the best way to format an error is and what information should be taken from these errors.

[zeodragonzord]

Personally, I like to collect some or all this data:

• datetime when the error occurred
  
• filename where the error occurred
  
• class and function where the error occurred
  
• category of the error (database, bad input, logic, etc)
  
• if this occurred in Pear::MDB2, then record the Pear error message
  
• error level (critical, low, etc)
  

 

I put all those into an object and that gets passed to an error handling object that looks at the error level and decides if it should send an email to me, log it into a file, or insert the error message into a database.