By John Koster
The info helper will write an information entry into Laravel's log files. It allows a $message to be set, as well as an optional $context (which is an array of data). While the $context must be an array, the actual elements of the array do not have to be arrays themselves.
#Signature
The signature of the info function is:
1function info(
2 $message,
3 $context = []
4);
#Example Use
The following example shows the usage of the info helper. An example of what the function calls would produce in the log files follows the code examples.
1// An example message context.
2$context = ['name' => 'John Doe', 'email' => 'you@homestead'];
3
4// A log message without context.
5info('This is a log message without context');
6
7// A log message where the context is an array.
8info('This is a log message', $context);
9
10// A log message where the context is an array of objects.
11info('This is another log message', [(object) $context]);
The above code would produce results similar to the following (some lines have been indented to prevent wrapping and improve readability):
1...
2[2015-06-15 02:14:43] local.INFO:
3 This is a log message without context
4[2015-06-15 02:14:43] local.INFO:
5 This is a log message
6 {"name":"John Doe","email":"you@homestead"}
7[2015-06-15 02:14:43] local.INFO:
8 This is another log message
9 [
10 "[object] (stdClass: {\"name\":\"John Doe\",
11 \"email\":\"you@homestead\"})"
12 ]
13...
The following method calls are all equivalent:
1use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Log;
2
3app('info')->info('Log an informative message');
4
5resolve('info')->info('Log an informative message');
6
7info('Log an informative message');
8
9log()->info('Log an informative message');
10
11Log::info('Log an informative message');
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