print request body in the console in Yii 2

Question

in Yii2 rest API, I need to print the request body in the Visual Studio code's terminal. Is there a way to do that? I tried varduming and echoing but couldn't achieve the result.

Answer 1

In Yii2 you can create debug message using

\Yii::trace("this is my debug message");

which is added to ./runtime/log/application.log

On the command line (e.g. in Visual Code) to see this debug messages, do this:

$ cd runtime/log
$ tail -f application.log

You can stop the tail-command using ^C.

If this is too much output, you can refine debugging messag output in ./config/web.php:

$config = [
    ...
    'components' => [
        ...
        'log' => [
            ...
            [
                'class' => 'yii\log\FileTarget',
                'levels' => ['error', 'warning', 'trace'],
                'logVars' => [],  // no $SERVER vars
            ],
        ],
    ],
];
return $config;