Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional

© Frank M. Kromann 2018

Frank M. KromannBeginning PHP and MySQLhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6044-8_8

8. Error and Exception Handling

Frank M. Kromann¹ 

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Aliso Viejo, CA, USA

 

When it comes to programming, errors and other unexpected occurrences will undoubtedly creep into even the most trivial applications. Some of these errors are programmer induced, the result of mistakes made during the development process. Others are user induced, caused by the end user’s unwillingness or inability to conform to application constraints such as not entering a syntactically valid e-mail address. Still others are due to events likely outside of your control entirely, such as temporary inaccessibility of a database or network connection. Yet regardless of ...