How to save custom log file in laravel 5.6? - php

Question

I'm totally new to laravel, I am using laravel 5.6. and I am trying to create custom logging file. I googled but could not find.
I made here a chanel in config/logging.php:
'userLogin' => [
'driver' => 'daily',
'path' => storage_path('logs/user.log'),
'level' => 'info',
],
and used it in my controller:
use Log;
Log::channel('userLogin')->info('A transaction has been made!');
but it not writing to file at all.

Answer 1

Your code looks correct. I would guess that this is a permissions issue related to your log file. Try changing the log file to the default laravel log file: storage_path('logs/laravel.log'). If this solves the problem, then the problem is either that the logs/user.log file does not yet exist and your system wants to you to create it manually, or the file does exist but does not have proper permissions. Since I don't know your file system, etc. I can't give explicit instructions for setting permissions but I'd be happy to help if you get to that point.

Answer 2

this is my logging config
<?php
use Monolog\Handler\StreamHandler;
return [
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Default Log Channel
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This option defines the default log channel that gets used when writing
| messages to the logs. The name specified in this option should match
| one of the channels defined in the "channels" configuration array.
|
*/
'default' => env('LOG_CHANNEL', 'stack'),
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Log Channels
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here you may configure the log channels for your application. Out of
| the box, Laravel uses the Monolog PHP logging library. This gives
| you a variety of powerful log handlers / formatters to utilize.
|
| Available Drivers: "single", "daily", "slack", "syslog",
| "errorlog", "monolog",
| "custom", "stack"
|
*/
'channels' => [
'stack' => [
'driver' => 'stack',
'channels' => ['single', 'singleInfo', 'singleAlert', 'singleWarning', 'singleCritical', 'singleEmergency'],
],
'single' => [
'driver' => 'single',
'path' => storage_path('logs/laravel.log'),
'level' => 'debug',
],
'singleInfo' => [
'driver' => 'single',
'path' => storage_path('logs/info.log'),
'level' => 'info',
],
'singleAlert' => [
'driver' => 'single',
'path' => storage_path('logs/alert.log'),
'level' => 'alert',
],
'singleWarning' => [
'driver' => 'single',
'path' => storage_path('logs/warning.log'),
'level' => 'warning',
],
'singleCritical' => [
'driver' => 'single',
'path' => storage_path('logs/critical.log'),
'level' => 'critical',
],
'singleEmergency' => [
'driver' => 'single',
'path' => storage_path('logs/emergency.log'),
'level' => 'emergency',
],
'daily' => [
'driver' => 'daily',
'path' => storage_path('logs/laravel.log'),
'level' => 'debug',
'days' => 0,
],
'slack' => [
'driver' => 'slack',
'url' => env('LOG_SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL'),
'username' => 'Laravel Log',
'emoji' => ':boom:',
'level' => 'critical',
],
'stderr' => [
'driver' => 'monolog',
'handler' => StreamHandler::class,
'with' => [
'stream' => 'php://stderr',
],
],
'syslog' => [
'driver' => 'syslog',
'level' => 'debug',
],
'errorlog' => [
'driver' => 'errorlog',
'level' => 'debug',
],
],
];