Laravel 5: Logging Informative Messages With info

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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