Error Logs not showing up when debugging?

[deeve]

Hi all,
Am new on here so please be gentle ;O)

I have a client who is experiencing partial & intermittent white spaces on pages in their shop [not Admin]. Having read through the forum I downloaded the Debug Error Logging Utility & installed as per instructions. Now, here's the weird part; In the 'Server/Version info' page, I can see in the PHP Core section of MyPHP that the myDEBUG-xxxxxxx.log files are being generated but when I look in my specified cache folder, they're not there! Instead I see 2 .sql log files similar to this: zc_[32 digit alpha/mumeric filename].sql

Anyone else had this occur or can advise as to where I'm going wrong?

NB: I also have 'STRICT ERROR REPORTING' enabled on the site but do not see any errors displayed - is this right?


Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

[DrByte]

If there are no PHP-level errors, then the log file won't be created. Same with STRICT_ERROR_REPORTING.
If the file/folder isn't writable, then the logs can't be created.
The zc_xxxxxx.sql files are query caching. Their presence suggests that the folder is properly writable.

[deeve]

Many thanks for taking the time to reply, Dr Byte.
Do you have any idea why these myDEBUG-xxxxxx files were showing up in the Server/Version Info page within the PHP Core 'error_log' section? When I turn the php script off it then shows them as 'error_log'.

Apologies in advance for not grasping this myself.

[DrByte]

The log filename will appear in the phpinfo output as the 'error_log' filename specified for the current operating session. But, as I said before, the file will not actually be created if there are no errors generated to put into it.