Re: [Zend Engine 2] Errors and exceptions?

On 12 Nov 2002, Timm Friebe wrote: > On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:26, Stig S. Bakken wrote: > [...] > > > The problem here is that PHP's E_WARNING does not resemble an exception. > > > Some of the warnings raised are only of informational intent and do not > > > indicate the failure of a function. > [...] > > Right. What this illustrates is that "PHP errors" as such as way too > > random and unstructured to be of any other use than showing error > > messages to developers. > > Well, would it be wise then to either: > * Change informational warnings to E_NOTICE > (e.g. Notice: Called ... before fetching all rows ...) > or > * Introduce E_FAIL and use it for cases when a function fails > (say, fopen('/doesnotexist', 'r')) > > In both cases, people doing string magic with $php_errormsg (if > ereg("not exist", $php_errormsg)) or having their own error handlers > consisting of constructs like > if (E_WARNING == $code) > would see their code break. > > As for the first suggestion, the downside is that a lot of people will > miss the message(s) since they've disabled E_NOTICEs. And that's why I would be -1 on the first one. However, the whole error reporting is a pretty mess, with some extensions implementing other 'philosiphies' then others. Getting this all nice and clean is another point we should address in PHP 5 (just like Stig mentioned). Derick -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl/ JDI Media Solutions http://www.jdimedia.nl/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------