Question

I’m trying to create a log file that contains some infotmation, my code is,

    $info = date("Y-m-d  H:i:s")."    ".$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']."               ".$_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']."         ".$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']."          ".$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']."\n".$_POST."\n";


$req_dump = print_r($info, TRUE);
$fp = fopen('request.log', 'a');
fwrite($fp, $req_dump);
fclose($fp);

the code logs the information like this,

2013-01-15 17:10:15 192.168.0.50 POST /index.php http://www.domain.com/article/12
Array

the $_POST value is array and no values are being dumped.
How to correct this and get the $_POST values logged?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You are just appending $_POST to your string. That converts it to the word "Array", because that’s how Array -> String conversions work.

You want to print_r the $_POST array, not the concatenated string.

$info = date("Y-m-d  H:i:s")."    ".
    $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']."               ".
    $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']."         ".
    $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']."          ".
    $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']."\n".
    print_r($_POST, true)."\n";

$fp = fopen('request.log', 'a');
fwrite($fp, $info);
fclose($fp);