Since drupal 6, they have replaced watchdog logging with dblog.
We are open sourcing one of our library for you to easily log onto the database log "watchdog" table.
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log to database
* @param string category
* @param string sLog
* @param string sType
* @param array variables
*/
function logger_log($sCategory, $sLog, $sType="info", $aVars=array())
{
switch ($sType)
{
case "emergency":
$iType = WATCHDOG_EMERG;
break;
case "alert":
$iType = WATCHDOG_ALERT;
break;
case "critical":
$iType = WATCHDOG_CRITICAL;
break;
case "error":
case "err":
$iType = WATCHDOG_ERROR;
break;
case "warning":
case "warn":
$iType = WATCHDOG_WARNING;
break;
case "note":
case "notice":
$iType = WATCHDOG_NOTICE;
break;
case "info":
$iType = WATCHDOG_INFO;
break;
case "debug":
$iType = WATCHDOG_DEBUG;
break;
default:
$iType = 999;//unknown
}
$aLog = array(
"user" => $GLOBALS["user"],
"type" => $sCategory,
"message" => $sLog,
"variables" => $aVars,
"severity" => $iType,
"request_uri" => $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"],
"referer" => $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"],
"ip" => $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"],
"timestamp" => time()
);
dblog_watchdog($aLog);
}