[MacPorts] #17839: php5: Newlines showing as "\n" in Apache error log (was: Newlines showing as literal characters in PHP error logs)

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#17839: php5: Newlines showing as "\n" in Apache error log
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  Reporter:  simon@…                    |       Owner:  ryandesign@…             
      Type:  defect                     |      Status:  closed                   
  Priority:  Normal                     |   Milestone:  Port Bugs                
 Component:  ports                      |     Version:  1.7.0                    
Resolution:  invalid                    |    Keywords:  php5, error log, newlines
      Port:  php5                       |  
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Changes (by ryandesign@…):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => invalid


Comment:

 Sorry, I misunderstood the problem before. The title of the ticket said
 "PHP error logs" and the summary says "the error log" so I assumed you
 meant the PHP error log, the one you set with the error_log directive in
 the php.ini. After running [comment:3 your code from above], I see this in
 my PHP error log:

 {{{
 [28-Jan-2009 16:46:04] Array
 (
     [0] => blue
     [1] => red
     [2] => orange
     [3] => apple
 )
 }}}

 However, I now see that [comment:3 you said "Apache error log" later],
 which is of course a different thing. If I remove the error_log directive
 from my php.ini and restart Apache and run your code again, then in my
 Apache error log, I see:

 {{{
 [Wed Jan 28 16:47:30 2009] [error] [client ::1] Array\n(\n    [0] =>
 blue\n    [1] => red\n    [2] => orange\n    [3] => apple\n)\n
 }}}

 This is probably not a bug and is in fact intentional. There are web
 server log analyzers out there which undoubtedly assume that each line of
 the log is a request; if PHP were to be allowed to insert newlines into
 the log, such analyzers wouldn't be able to work properly. So I'm going to
 close this ticket as "invalid" (which is our issue tracker's way of saying
 "not a bug"). If you need further information on this, someone in a PHP
 support channel would probably be better able to help you than I.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17839#comment:5>
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