PHP error log and newline chars

Question

What\'s the PHP config setting which allows or prevents newlines in debug output from being escaped?

On two different installs (a dev laptop running MAMP/OSX, and a

Answer 1

Chris, you should be able to change the error_log directive in your php.ini on Debian to point to a file. If this is undefined, it will go through syslog which doesn't support multiple lines.

Details:

error_log function

error_log directive

Answer 2

The problem is caused when the Apache process can't write into the error_log file, so the syslog writes into the file instead. The syslog messes up the line breaks.

So just do:

chmod 777 error.log

This should solve your problem.