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Add Action Logging to Your Add-ons

Recently I’ve been thinking that the EE control panel could use more robust logging. This is especially important for me during the late development stage of a project when the number of people with access to the control panel increases. It’s not really to expose and assign blame if something goes wrong, but at least have a complete record of what happened.

With a similar idea, Erik Reagan posted a great article on his blog this week about adding action logging to you add-ons. EE add-on developers take note! Erik walks you through, step-by-step, how to use the existing Logger class, load it in your add-on and use it.

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Excellent idea! I hope add-on developers start adopting this method.

Read the whole article: Logging Actions in your ExpressionEngine Add-ons

Posted on Mar 04, 2010 by Ryan Irelan

Filed Under: Development Tools, EE Add-ons, Software