Trapping Errors

[Spike]

Is there a clean way to trap errors in PHP?
In Perl there is eval { <code> } and a special variable that can be
checked to see if the execution of the code was successful or not, and
thus a clean way to trap the error without it killing the entire
script.

Is there something similar in PHP?

[Andy Hassall]

Re: Trapping Errors

On 20 Jan 2004 09:38:09 -0800, just.ice@mailci ty.com (Spike) wrote:
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>Is there a clean way to trap errors in PHP?
>In Perl there is eval { <code> } and a special variable that can be
>checked to see if the execution of the code was successful or not, and
>thus a clean way to trap the error without it killing the entire
>script.
>
>Is there something similar in PHP?[/color]

There is eval() in PHP, but it's not as clean as in Perl, as PHP's exception
handling's not the same; die() doesn't set a variable like $@ in Perl. It's
also icky as you have to pass it a string, it's not a language construct around
a code block.

You could use the PHP error handling functions to set up an error handler of
your own to catch all errors, look up set_error_handl er().

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