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Kernighan style eprint utility functions for php

NAME

eprint -- formatted stderr printing utility functions

SYNOPSIS

function eprint($msg)

function nprint($msg)

function wprint($msg)

DESCRIPTION

All functions will print a message to STDERR prepended with date, filename, pid and the level depending on the function used. The eprint() function will additionaly halt the execution with exit(2). If $msg is passed as a multiline string, it will be indented to emphasize it's multiline nature.

EXAMPLES

the following code

nprint('this is a notice');
nprint('this is a dump of the $_ENV '. print_r($_ENV, true));
wprint('this should be checked sometime');
eprint('and this will stop the execution');

will output

2015-09-21 19:35:55 printme [81662] notice: this is a notice
2015-09-21 19:35:55 printme [81662] notice: this is a dump of the $_ENV Array
        (
            [PAGER] => more
            [EDITOR] => vi
            [...]
            [SHELL] => /bin/sh
            [BLOCKSIZE] => K
        )
2015-09-21 19:35:55 printme [81662] warning: this should be checked sometime
2015-09-21 19:35:55 printme [81662] error: and this will stop the execution