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Bug #45770 error_log entries do not have linebreaks
Submitted: 2008-08-08 23:53 UTC Modified: 2008-08-10 09:56 UTC
From: dueyduong at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: 5.2.6 OS: IIS6
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2008-08-08 23:53 UTC] dueyduong at gmail dot com 
Description:
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New entries in the error log file do not start on a new line.  That is, every error log seems to run continuously on one single line in the file.

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 [2008-08-08 23:56 UTC] jani@php.net 
Do you mean error_log() the function or error_log the php.ini option?
 [2008-08-09 01:00 UTC] dueyduong at gmail dot com 
Sorry for not being clear to begin with -- error_log the php.ini option, not the function.
 [2008-08-09 16:45 UTC] jani@php.net 
So what is it set to? PLEASE be more specific, we can't read minds..unfortunately.
 [2008-08-09 17:31 UTC] dueyduong at gmail dot com 
Alright let me try again.

Ok -- display_errors is turned Off. log_errors is turned On.

error_log = "/logs/php-errors.log"

Now, when there is an error and the log file is written to, each error entry in the log file is written to the same (single) line in the log file, without any line breaks.

For example:

These options need to match
 in Unknown on line 0 [09-Aug-2008 10:24:53] PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected T_ECHO in C:\...httpdocs\priv\test.php on line 5 [09-Aug-2008 10:26:18] PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected T_ECHO, expecting ',' or ';' in C:\...httpdocs\priv\test.php on line 7 [09-Aug-2008 10:26:20] PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected T_ECHO, expecting ',' or ';' in C:\...\httpdocs\priv\test.php on line 7

In this example, there were 3 instances of errors, and they should each be on a separate line in the log file. Instead, all 3 error logs are on the same single line without any line breaks between each error.

Hope that is clear now.
 [2008-08-09 19:20 UTC] jani@php.net 
Works fine for me using CLI. Please try it yourself too.
 [2008-08-10 03:29 UTC] dueyduong at gmail dot com 
For some reason Wordpad displays the log file all on one line (this wasn't the case w/ PHP v4.4).  I opened the log file w/ Notepad and it's fine.  Same w/ CLI ("type").  No bug.
 
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