Question

Iam thinking changing the log file into database table.

I execute multiple shell_exec and it run in the background, example:

<?php
 shell_exec("php process.php > /dev/null 2>&1 &");
 shell_exec("php process.php > /dev/null 2>&1 &");
 shell_exec("php process.php > /dev/null 2>&1 &");
 shell_exec("php process.php > /dev/null 2>&1 &");
?>

While process.php is running/looping – it will generate a log, assume process ID is 123

log_123.txt File:

-----------------------------------------
Process ID: 123
- Loggin In
- Logged OK
- Checking xxxx (xxxxx)
- Sending Info
- Received xxxx 25252525
- Completed
------------------------------------------
Process ID: 123
- Loggin In
- Logged OK
- Checking xxxx (xxxxx)
- Sending Info
- Received xxxx 23424
- Completed
------------------------------------------
Process ID: 123
- Loggin In
- Logged OK
- Checking xxxx (xxxxx)
- FAIL
------------------------------------------

(Each process have a log file)

Now I wanted to change text files logging into database table log, what is the best way to do this?

I came up with this solution:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `log` (
  `log_id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `process_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `process_date` datetime NOT NULL,
  `log_output` varchar(200) NOT NULL,
  `log_time` datetime NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`log_id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;

Answer 1

You have the table, you have the file. It sounds like you just need to modify the process.php file to update your database instead of the test file.

If you are using mysql http://php.net/manual/en/book.mysqli.php is a good place to start.