Send UDP remote syslog message from PHP (RFC 3164)

send_remote_syslog.php

<?php
function send_remote_syslog($message, $component = "web", $program = "next_big_thing") {
  $msg = "<22>" . date('M j H:i:s ') . $program . ' ' . $component . ': ' . $message;

  $sock = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, SOL_UDP);
  # replace these with settings provided by Papertrail
  socket_sendto($sock, $msg, strlen($msg), 0, 'logs.papertrailapp.com', 1111);
  socket_close($sock);
}

send_remote_syslog("Test");
# send_remote_syslog("Any log message");
# send_remote_syslog("Something just happened", "other-component");
# send_remote_syslog("Something just happened", "a-background-job-name", "whatever-app-name");
?>