7.4. Exceptions
7.4.1. What Are Exceptions?
Exceptions are a high-level built-in error mechanism that is new as of PHP 5. Just as for PEAR errors, the relative cost of generating exceptions is high, so use them only to notify about unexpected events.
Exceptions are objects that you can “throw” to PHP. If something is ready to "catch" your exception, it is handled gracefully. If nothing catches your exception, PHP bails out with an error message like this:
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'FileException' with message 'Could not open config /home/ssb/foo/conf/my.conf' in .../My/Config.php:49 Stack trace: #0 .../My/Config.php(31): config->parseFile('my.conf') #1 .../My/prepend.inc(61): config->__construct('my.conf') #2 {main} thrown in .../My/Config.php ...Get PHP 5 Power Programming now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
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