Syslog Handler - External syslog server

[auro1]

It is not possible to use an external syslog server, it can only log to the local syslog server.

[Seldaek]

Sorry but I have never used syslog much so I'm not exactly familiar with that stuff. Would you mind giving an example of how that would look like in plain php?

[auro1]

I don't have an example of my own, but look at this

http://www.phpclasses.org/package/2787-PHP-Log-data-to-a-RFC-3164-compliant-syslog-server.html
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/file/12157.html

[stof]

What you linked is an implementation in user-land to contact a remote server. It does not uses the PHP built-in syslog functions (which are probably limited to accessing the syslog configured locally).
The SyslogHandler is based on the PHP built-in functions so you will need to write your own handler for this.

[Seldaek]

Well I suppose the SyslogHandler could take an optional $host argument where it sends everything. Looking at that code that was linked, the actual sending is a couple lines of code. If you can provide a pull request for it it would definitely improve the chances it gets done though, I'm currently really swamped.

[auro1]

I'll have a go at it. :)

[Seldaek]

The SocketHandler for syslog-ng (which I guess is close enough to this feature request) has been merged, so I am closing this. See #63 and https://github.com/Seldaek/monolog/blob/master/doc/sockets.md

[jankonas]

There is a SyslogUdpHandler: https://github.com/Seldaek/monolog/blob/master/src/Monolog/Handler/SyslogUdpHandler.php.

Just leaving it here, because I found this issue and took me another 30 minutes to find the handler :-)