Building RESTful Web Services with PHP 7

Multi-catch exception handling

This one is an interesting feature in PHP7.1. It was previously possible but was performed in multiple steps. Now, instead of just catching one exception at a time and handling that, there is a multi-catch exception handling facility available. The syntax can be seen here:

<?phptry {    // some code} catch (FirstException | SecondException $e) {    // handle first and second exceptions}

As you can see here, there is a pipe sign separating these two exceptions. So, this pipe sign | separates multiple exceptions. Here there are just two exceptions in the example, but there can be more than that.