reworked debugger as helper class

classes/debug.php

@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-
-namespace local_treestudyplan;
-
-class debug {
-    
-    public static function dump($tag,$object)
-    {
-        global $CFG;
-        // assume debug environment if cachejs is false
-        if(isset($CFG->cachejs) && $CFG->cachejs == false){
-            $f = fopen("/tmp/log.txt","a");
-            fwrite($f,$tag . ":\n".print_r($object,true)."\n");
-            fclose($f);
-            
-        }
-    }
-    public static function msg($tag,$str)
-    {
-        global $CFG;
-        // assume debug environment if cachejs is false
-        if(isset($CFG->cachejs) && $CFG->cachejs == false){
-            $f = fopen("/tmp/log.txt","a");
-            fwrite($f,$tag . ":\n".$str."\n");
-            fclose($f);
-            
-        }
-    }
-
-}

classes/local/helpers/debugger.php

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace local_treestudyplan;
+
+use DateTime;
+
+class debugger {
+    
+    private $fname;
+    private $tag;
+    private $enabled = false;
+
+    public function __construct($filename,$tag)
+    {
+        global $CFG;
+
+        $this->fname = $filename;
+        $this->tag = $tag;
+
+        // assume debug environment if cachejs is false
+        $this->enabled = (isset($CFG->cachejs) && $CFG->cachejs == false);
+
+    }
+
+    public function dump($object)
+    {
+        global $CFG;
+        $this->writeblock(print_r($object,true));
+
+    }
+
+    public function write($str)
+    {
+        $this->writeblock($str);
+    }
+
+    private function writeblock($str){
+        if($this->enabled){
+            $now = new DateTime();
+
+            $tagline = "[ {$this->tag} - ".$now->format("c")." ]";
+
+            $fp = fopen($this->fname,"a");
+            fwrite($fp,$tagline . ":\n".$str."\n");
+            fclose($fp);
+        }
+    }
+
+
+}