User names in the sugarcrm.log instead of IDs

So normally the sugarCRM log file is filled with lines like this

Mon Apr 16 07:02:12 2018 [15900][412b8e70-febc-11e6-934a-52d504b662cb][FATAL] No Links found for relationship tasks_activities_1_tasks
Mon Apr 16 07:02:12 2018 [15900][420703ed-f2bc-e3f4-f906-566ef6f1e16d][FATAL] No Links found for relationship accounts_accounts_1
Mon Apr 16 07:02:12 2018 [15900][41a5d4a2-c01b-11e7-88b5-52d504b662cb][FATAL] No Links found for relationship cases_cases_1

Usually I am looking for an entry from a particular user so GUIDs are hard for old human eyes to read.  Even with FIND its a pain.  So I wrote this


This writes out a script and, when run, will rewrite the sugarcrm.log file with user_names instead of IDs.

So to use this you need to

1. Copy this code to the root SugarCRM directory
2. run it (php -f updateLog.php)
3. Update the permissions on the file it creates (chmod 777 updateLog.sh)
4. Run the script (./updateLog.sh)

Of course this only works on Linux or Mac and maybe the Linux Shell in windows, not sure abou thtat.  But anyway I like it and I hope up do to.

This could also be done in real time by overriding include/SugarLoggger/SugarLogger.php and changing the bit of code that write the line to the log file.  I can show that if anyone needs it, just ask.

Developer Centric Logging

A few weeks ago I wrote some posts about overriding the CRON handler and I showed code about Developer Communication.   Since then I have talked to a few people and they all wanted to know what that cryptic function call did so I thought I would look into releasing it.   When I looked at the code I realized that I could not release it as it was crap.  So I took a week and rewrote it into this.  What we have here is a custom logger.  I found scant few examples of custom loggers on the internet so I hope someone finds this useful.

I think it adds all the missing pieces into SugarCRM's SugarLogger function like timers, headers, line tracing, email, and notifications.