Hi there,
Today we are talking about PHP excetions, very handy stuff you know, and available from PHP5 and onwards (current at time of this article), the throw and catch is similar to other programming languages which also use ‘Try’ and ‘Catch’ exceptions.
The point of these exceptions, is that PHP can be ‘thrown’ something, and errors can be caught by the ‘catch’, it’s error handling. For each ‘Try’, there needs to be at least one ‘ Catch’, (we’ll show this in an example). However you can use mutiple ‘catch’ if necessary.
PHP will continue to search through to a matching ‘catch’ before excuting the code included in the ‘catch’.
<?php function inverse($x) { if (!$x) { throw new Exception('Division by zero.'); } else return 1/$x; } try { echo inverse(5) . "\n"; echo inverse(0) . "\n"; } catch (Exception $e) { echo 'Caught exception: ', $e->getMessage(), "\n"; } // Continue execution echo 'Hello World';?>
Here is an example above of the PHP exception.
