Is it possible to use HTML tags in log files and how?

[Juergen]

Hello @ all,

I am logging all submissions via my contact form in the log files with the following line of code:

 

$log->save('contact-form', 'Email: '.$emailvalue.'<br />Betreff: '.$subjectvalue.'<br /> Nachricht: '.$commentsvalue);

 

So the logfile is called "contact-form". Unfortnunately all br-tags will be displayed as letters and not as line-breaks. Maybe someone can give me a hint how to use line-breaks in log files.

Thanks

[DaveP]

Would \n or \r\n work instead of <br>?

[kongondo]

22 minutes ago, DaveP said:

Would \n or \r\n work instead of <br>?

No .  Tested...

[Juergen]

Thanks for testing @kongondo, but I have tried this before with no luck.

Another opportunity would be to add separate colums (<td>) for each entry, but I also dont know how. Serializing the entries dont work.

[alxndre]

I don't think this is possible because WireLog replaces the escape characters with spaces:

// somewhere in WireLog::save()
$text = str_replace(array("\r", "\n", "\t"), ' ', $text);

and it also sanitizes the tags when outputting.

[bernhard]

I always use pages to log mails... just use a ckeditor field and you can see your html content. Or why exactly do you want to use logfiles?

[Juergen]

Its a fast and simply way to store sent mails. Its only there for the purpose if someone says he has sent a mail, but the site owner doesnt receive it. The log file will be written after PHP mailers send function was successfully triggered.

[Robin S]

You won't be able to use $log->save() for the reason @alxndre mentioned, and you won't be able to use the admin log viewer because a) it uses new lines to identify each log entry so therefore one entry cannot contain more than one line, and b) it entity encodes HTML for security reasons.

But you can use PHP functions like error_log() or file_put_contents() to create your own log file (create the "custom-logs" folder first).

$text = date("Y-m-d H:i:s") . "\nHello, how \nare you?\n\n"; // your text, include newlines if needed
error_log($text, 3, $config->paths->assets . "custom-logs/mail.txt")

 

[BitPoet]

3 minutes ago, Robin S said:

But you can use PHP functions like error_log() or file_put_contents() to create your own log file (create the "custom-logs" folder first).

Or you can steal one or two methods @ryan's code, stuff them into your little module, tweak a few lines and add even more fun to PW

Attached is a quick & dirty little module (actually, two of them) that adds:

• $log->mailLog($your, $fields, $ending, $with, ..., $messagebody) [pass as many arguments as you like; the last one will always have white-space set to wrap]
• a special log viewer at Setup -> Mail Log that displays as many columns as you sent to mailLog()

It uses some unlikely to naturally occur text patterns for newlines and field separators and fools ProcessLogger::executeView into thinking it is pointed to the mail log, and that way lets it do the heavy lifting.

ProcessMailLogger.zip

[bernhard]

This community is crazy 

[gebeer]

I had this problem once and solved it with JSON. It is quick and simple.

In your case

$logmsg = array(
	'Email' => $emailvalue, 
	'Betreff' => $subjectvalue, 
	'Nachricht' => $commentsvalue
);
$log->save('contact-form', json_encode($logmsg));