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<div class="section"><h2>LoggerAppenderFile<a name="LoggerAppenderFile"></a></h2>
<p><tt>LoggerAppenderFile</tt> writes logging events to a file.</p>
<div class="section"><h3>Layout<a name="Layout"></a></h3>
<p>This appender requires a layout. If no layout is specified in configuration,
<tt><a href="../layouts/simple.html">LoggerLayoutSimple</a></tt> will be used by default.</p>
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<div class="section"><h3>Parameters<a name="Parameters"></a></h3>
<p>The following parameters are available:</p>
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<td>file</td>
<td>string</td>
<td><b>Yes</b></td>
<td>-</td>
<td>Path to the target file. Relative paths are resolved based on the working directory.</td>
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<td>append</td>
<td>boolean</td>
<td>No</td>
<td>true</td>
<td>If set to true, the appender will append to the file, otherwise the file contents will be
overwritten.</td>
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<div class="section"><h3>Examples<a name="Examples"></a></h3>
<p>This example shows how to configure <tt>LoggerAppenderFile</tt> to write to <tt>file.log</tt>
and to overwrite any content present in the file. The target file will be created in the current
working directory.</p>
<p>It is also possible to specify an absolute path to the target file, such as
<tt>/var/log/file.log</tt> or <tt>D:/logs/file.log</tt></p>
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&lt;configuration xmlns=&quot;http://logging.apache.org/log4php/&quot;&gt;
&lt;appender name=&quot;default&quot; class=&quot;LoggerAppenderFile&quot;&gt;
&lt;layout class=&quot;LoggerLayoutSimple&quot; /&gt;
&lt;param name=&quot;file&quot; value=&quot;file.log&quot; /&gt;
&lt;param name=&quot;append&quot; value=&quot;false&quot; /&gt;
&lt;/appender&gt;
&lt;root&gt;
&lt;appender_ref ref=&quot;default&quot; /&gt;
&lt;/root&gt;
&lt;/configuration&gt;
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array(
'appenders' =&gt; array(
'default' =&gt; array(
'class' =&gt; 'LoggerAppenderFile',
'layout' =&gt; array(
'class' =&gt; 'LoggerLayoutSimple',
),
'params' =&gt; array(
'file' =&gt; 'file.log',
'append' =&gt; false
),
),
),
'rootLogger' =&gt; array(
'appenders' =&gt; array('default'),
),
);
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