InitPHP Logger

A small, focused, PSR-3 compliant logger for PHP 8.0+. Ships with two built-in handlers and a tiny multiplexer that fans every log record out to several handlers at once.

At a glance

• FileLogger — appends each record as a single line to a file, with optional date-token placeholders in the path ({year}/{month}/{day}/...).
• PDOLogger — inserts each record as a row in a relational table, using prepared statements. Works with any PDO driver (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite…).
• Logger — accepts any number of Psr\Log\LoggerInterface instances and forwards every call to all of them, in registration order.

Everything implements Psr\Log\LoggerInterface (PSR-3 v3), so you can drop the package into any framework or library that consumes that contract — or compose it with handlers from other PSR-3 packages.

Requirements

Requirement	Version
PHP	>= 8.0
psr/log	^3.0
ext-pdo	Required only for PDOLogger

Installation

composer require initphp/logger

Quick start

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use InitPHP\Logger\FileLogger;
use InitPHP\Logger\Logger;

$logger = new Logger(
    new FileLogger(['path' => __DIR__ . '/logs/app.log'])
);

$logger->info('Service booted in {ms}ms', ['ms' => 42]);
$logger->error('Payment {id} failed', ['id' => 9182]);

Produces, for example:

2026-05-24T14:08:22+03:00 [INFO] Service booted in 42ms
2026-05-24T14:08:22+03:00 [ERROR] Payment 9182 failed

Handlers

FileLogger

use InitPHP\Logger\FileLogger;

$logger = new FileLogger([
    'path' => __DIR__ . '/logs/app-{year}-{month}-{day}.log',
]);

Path tokens ({year}, {month}, {day}, {hour}, {minute}, {second}) are resolved once, at construction time, against the process clock. The parent directory is created automatically (mode 0775) if it does not already exist. Writes use FILE_APPEND | LOCK_EX, so concurrent processes do not interleave bytes within a single record.

Full reference: docs/02-file-logger.md.

PDOLogger

use InitPHP\Logger\PDOLogger;

$pdo = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=app;charset=utf8mb4', 'app', 'secret');
$pdo->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);

$logger = new PDOLogger(['pdo' => $pdo, 'table' => 'logs']);

$logger->error('User {user} caused an error.', ['user' => 'muhammetsafak']);
// INSERT INTO logs (level, message, date) VALUES ('ERROR', 'User muhammetsafak caused an error.', '2026-05-24 14:08:22')

Reference DDL for MySQL:

CREATE TABLE `logs` (
    `id`      BIGINT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
    `level`   ENUM('EMERGENCY','ALERT','CRITICAL','ERROR','WARNING','NOTICE','INFO','DEBUG') NOT NULL,
    `message` TEXT NOT NULL,
    `date`    DATETIME NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
    KEY `idx_logs_level_date` (`level`, `date`)
) ENGINE = InnoDB CHARSET = utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_general_ci;

PostgreSQL and SQLite variants are documented in docs/03-pdo-logger.md.

Multi-handler logging

use InitPHP\Logger\FileLogger;
use InitPHP\Logger\Logger;
use InitPHP\Logger\PDOLogger;

$logger = new Logger(
    new FileLogger(['path' => __DIR__ . '/logs/app.log']),
    new PDOLogger(['pdo' => $pdo, 'table' => 'logs'])
);

$logger->warning('cache miss for key {key}', ['key' => 'user:42']);
// Goes to BOTH the file and the database table.

Logger accepts any Psr\Log\LoggerInterface, including handlers from other PSR-3 packages — see docs/05-custom-handlers.md.

PSR-3 surface

Every handler exposes the full PSR-3 API:

$logger->emergency(string|\Stringable $message, array $context = []): void;
$logger->alert    (string|\Stringable $message, array $context = []): void;
$logger->critical (string|\Stringable $message, array $context = []): void;
$logger->error    (string|\Stringable $message, array $context = []): void;
$logger->warning  (string|\Stringable $message, array $context = []): void;
$logger->notice   (string|\Stringable $message, array $context = []): void;
$logger->info     (string|\Stringable $message, array $context = []): void;
$logger->debug    (string|\Stringable $message, array $context = []): void;
$logger->log      ($level, string|\Stringable $message, array $context = []): void;

Context placeholders ({name}) are expanded with the matching key from $context. Booleans render as true / false, null renders as the empty string, \Throwable values render as Class(code): message in file:line, and anything implementing __toString() is cast to string. Arrays and non-stringable objects are skipped — see docs/06-psr3-context.md.

Unknown log levels throw Psr\Log\InvalidArgumentException, per PSR-3 §1.1.

Documentation

Topic-by-topic guides live in docs/:

• 01-getting-started.md
• 02-file-logger.md
• 03-pdo-logger.md
• 04-multi-logger.md
• 05-custom-handlers.md
• 06-psr3-context.md
• 07-recipes.md
• 08-testing-your-logging.md

Testing the package itself

composer install
composer test         # PHPUnit
composer phpstan      # PHPStan (level max)
composer cs-check     # PHP-CS-Fixer dry-run
composer ci           # all of the above

Contributing

Please read the org-wide CONTRIBUTING.md before opening a pull request. Bug reports and feature ideas go through Issues and Discussions.

Security

If you discover a security vulnerability, please follow the instructions in the org-wide SECURITY.md. Do not open a public issue.

License

Released under the MIT License. Copyright © InitPHP.