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canteen/logger
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Using PHP to trace and debug code on a website

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\#Canteen Logger

A visual display of logs from within your PHP code. Add this to any dynamic PHP page to see a list of all your debug, trace, info, warning, and error statements. For documentation of the codebase, please see [Canteen Logger docs](http://canteen.github.io/CanteenLogger/).

\##Installation

Install is available using [Composer](http://getcomposer.org).

```
composer require canteen/logger dev-master
```

Including using the Composer autoloader in your index.

```
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
```

\##Setup

```
use Canteen\Logger;
Logger.init();
```

At the very end of your PHP code, echo the Logger contents within the body of your document. Such as:

```
echo Logger::instance()->render();
```

\##Usage

Here are some examples of usage:

```
// Most general trace statement
trace('Logger setup!');

// You can pass arrays or objects to the trace output
info(array(10, 100, 1000));
```

There are five different log levels function that come with Logger. These are in order from least to most severe. Statements are color coded in the output trace window depending on the method called.

- `trace()`
- `debug()`
- `info()`
- `warning()`
- `error()`

\###Rebuild Documentation

This library is auto-documented using [YUIDoc](http://yui.github.io/yuidoc/). To install YUIDoc, run `sudo npm install yuidocjs`. Also, this requires the project [CanteenTheme](http://github.com/Canteen/CanteenTheme) be checked-out along-side this repository. To rebuild the docs, run the ant task from the command-line.

```
ant docs
```

\##License##

Copyright (c) 2013 [Matt Karl](http://github.com/bigtimebuddy)

Released under the MIT License.

###  Health Score

27

—

LowBetter than 49% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity11

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity59

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~0 days

Total

2

Last Release

4597d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a8c8b26b4bef66000886f554f9498714eddf11bdc41673d33a0f6365a82f293b?d=identicon)[bigtimebuddy](/maintainers/bigtimebuddy)

---

Top Contributors

[![bigtimebuddy](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/864393?v=4)](https://github.com/bigtimebuddy "bigtimebuddy (1 commits)")

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