June 12, 2007 – 4:12pm Symfony exceptions, logging, and debugging

Since I always forget, here is a quick reference for throwing exceptions and adding log/debug messages throughout your symfony project.

Exceptions
This is how you can throw a new symfony exception.

throw new sfException('An error occurred. Please go back and try again.');  

Logging

Within an action, this is how you can log a message:

<?php use_helper('Debug') ?>
<?php if ($problem): ?>
  <?php echo log_message('{mainActions} been there', 'err') ?>
<?php endif ?>

And elsewhere within the code (model, etc):

sfContext::getInstance()->getLogger()->info($message);
sfContext::getInstance()->getLogger()->err($message);

Debugging

// in an action
$this->debugMessage($message);
// in a template
<?php echo debug_message($message) ?>

Reference: Symfony Docs: Debugging