Hello,

I fired up supersearch and looked for some ideas about this. Mostly I found this about cgi. The conclusion here is not to show the user to much. Ok here.

But I inherited a appliction that follows a flow of actions that can go different directions. Like sending mails and updating the database. What happens *o dear* sometimes a mail get send but the db doesn't get updated. Yes there are bugs in the system :)
The corrupt data gets detected and then I have to follow the complete flow manually to see how the data should be corrected.
Why does do I have to follow the complete flow? Because there's no error detecting and/or logging of the steps that went succesfull so I can backtrace where the last succesfull step was!!!

I was thinking about writing a module for doing this. Writing like in apache a acces.log and error.log. So I can follow everything.

I wanted to hear some opinions about it? Are there maybe any modules like this?

What do I want in this module?



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