UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 6 V6 Modifications V6 Mod Ideas Admin logs

I think about admin logs which could save information in specyfic files - for example:
command "edit post" >> is saved in editpost.log
command "edit board" >> is saved in editboards.log
command "make new forum" >> is saved in newforum.log
... etc.

Now It's very hard find any information on the list of logs.

Yes that would be very nice...or even just a filter to filter out only certain types of logs from the single file.

I like having the information in a single file. It's just a text file, so you can easily search for whatever you're looking for using a text editor or text search tool.

When that was first written as a mod, before it was adopted as a feature, there was some discussion of storing the log in the database. That might add a lot of queries, though. Maybe a cleaner solution would be an addon script that reads the admin log file and stores it in a database table. Then queries could be used for seaches.

Yeah, a bad thing about doing the logs into the database directly is that if someone drops the database with sql command, you won't be able to see who did it. Having it as an external file adds a little bit of extra safety at least.

Adding them into a database later to do searches could of course be a solution, but if you keep the logs relatively short it would be just as easy to search the text file.

I'm thinking a drop list at the top of the log viewer with a select box for all different operations, and if one is selected, only those are shown. Since the list is parsed to be put into a table, it won't even be much of a change or speed decrease. How does that sound?