Development PHP: Logging: How to?

I'm coming to the end of a project and am thinking about adding some logging functionality.
I'd like to write some stuff to file (or DB) and more serious errors should email me.

Are there any standard (/easy) ways of doing this?

This is for my work web app, hosted by dreamhost (so afaik I can't edit php.ini!).

 

Does dreamhost not have a php log? You should be able to have some kind of a script which you can request that they run which scans the error logs.

Otherwise, if you mean "serious" errors like die(), get it to run a function which emails the error to you.

 

http://uk2.php.net/errorfunc

http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.error-log.php
(and others in menu)

HTH

 

What if the error comes from mysql_connect()

http://php.net/exceptions

 

http://www.devsource.com/article2/0,1759,1778106,00.asp

Check out item 3

 

php5 only, remember.