How do I get PHP5's Exception Handling to catch a fatal error?

[Mike]

Last weekend I decided to install
Apache 2.0.53-win32-x86-no_ssl
PHP 5.0.3
Smarty 2.6.7
MySQL essential-4.1.10-win32

I have Apache up (Port 80 blocked at the router and firewall!) and I
have got
Smarty working. I haven't got around to installing MySQL. I am now in
chapter 8 'Error and Exception Handling' of
"Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL: From Novice to Professional", by W. Jason
Gilmore,
pub. Apress. I tried example Listing 8-1. Raising an Exception:
<?php
//Boilerplate
require('Smarty .class.php');
$smarty = new Smarty;

$smarty->template_dir=' C:\php5\include s\smarty\templa tes\\';
$smarty->compile_dir='C :\php5\includes \smarty\templat es_c\\';
$smarty->config_dir='C: \php5\includes\ smarty\configs\ \';
$smarty->cache_dir='C:\ php5\includes\s marty\cache\\';

//Example 8.1
try {
$conn = mysql_connect(" localhost1","we buser","secret" );
if (! $conn) {
throw new Exception("Coul d not connect");
}
}
catch (Exception $e
) {
echo "Error (File: ".$e->getFile().", line ".$e->getLine().") :
".$e->getMessage() ;
}
?>

Note that in the book, on the echo statement, the $e-> was missing from
the
getFile(). I went ahead and added it.

Cutting to the chase, when I ran the above nothing happened. I checked
the
log and saw the following:

[27-Feb-2005 11:33:59] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function
mysql_connect() in
C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\h tdocs\example81 .php on line 13

I commented out everything in the try block except the throw statement
and
reran. It worked as expected. How do I get PHP to catch fatal errors?

BTW, error_reporting = E_ALL

--Thank you,
--Mike Jr.

[Janwillem Borleffs]

Re: How do I get PHP5's Exception Handling to catch a fatal error?

Mike wrote:[color=blue]
> How do I get PHP to catch fatal
> errors?
>[/color]

You can only catch non-fatal errors. Fatal errors will always stop the
script because of their severity. Compare it with Java, which will stop
compiling when fatal errors occur...


JW