I am trying to write my own messages to the log in Symfony 2.3, from anywhere, and not just the Controller (which I realize you can just do a "$this->get('logger')".
I've seen that in Symfony 1 you can use sfContext, but that class no longer seems to be a viable choice in 2.3.
Any help is appreciated.
Symfony2 has Service-oriented architecture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented_architecture) and logger is one of service (by default Monolog). In controller you have access to service via $this->get('service_name'). Here is more info about service container: http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/service_container.html#what-is-a-service-container. If you wanna use logger in another service you have to define service and inject logger service. Example:
# section with defined service in your config.yml file (by default in config.yml)
services:
# your service name
my_service:
# your class name
class: Fully\Qualified\Loader\Class\Name
# arguments passed to service constructor. In this case @logger
arguments: ["@logger"]
# tags, info: http://symfony.com/doc/current/components/dependency_injection/tags.html
tags:
- { name: monolog.logger, channel: acme }
Additionally you should familiarize with dependency injection docs: http://symfony.com/doc/current/components/dependency_injection/index.html
I hope that helped. If not, please let me know where exactly you want to use logger.
