Comments on: WordPress dashboard widget for PHP errors log

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:24:07 +0000

What a fantastic idea for a widget this will be endlessly helpful with site debugging. I can’t believe I haven’t found anything like this anywhere else. Thanks for sharing!

By: Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:50:09 +0000

Hi Paula, I’ve not seen this before, even with relatively large error files. How many errors are in there? All I can suggest is maybe purge it regularly – I’d love to find time to build in a self-purger or something…

By: Paula Dalesio

Paula Dalesio — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:45:38 +0000

it started to hang dashboard and generate out of memory error (64MB limit).

By: Aluminium Bronze Valve

Aluminium Bronze Valve — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:06:11 +0000

Many thanks for the piece of code and clear instructions! Thank you Steve for posting such useful information, kudos to a job well done and please do keep on posting.

By: bruno

bruno — Fri, 07 May 2010 09:21:57 +0000

I like that. Good job.

By: Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:21:26 +0000

Good point. I regularly check and purge mine, but it’s worth having this sort of safety net. I’ll get onto it when I get a moment—do post code if you manage to hack it yourself in the meantime.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:40:38 +0000

I had recently added this to my blog (used plugin from official repository). It worked great at start (many thanks for the coding it btw), but when log grew to few MB (host has issues currently) it started to hang dashboard and generate out of memory error (64MB limit).

So it could use a tweak to protect from choking on large log files.

By: Aldo

Aldo — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:13:41 +0000

I sent him my zipped file.
Ciao!

By: Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:45:28 +0000

That’s great, Aldo, but code like this is usually folded into my custom themes, so I don’t really have use for a plugin (hence why I don’t get time to create many plugins…). Maybe post a link to your plugin? Also note that Jeff Starr may be developing a plugin from this, too. Worth keeping an eye on.

By: Aldo

Aldo — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:40:31 +0000

Hi Steve,
I found interesting this code and transformed it into a plugin.
Please, contact me in my inbox: I’ll send you the package.

Thank you for sharing! :)