Re: zippidity do duh!

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Eric Butera <eric.butera@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Nathan Nobbe <quickshiftin@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:43 PM, tedd <tedd@sperling.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi gang: > >> > >> I'm trying to do some zip stuff, but on server [1] my script hangs on: > >> > >> $zip = new ZipArchive(); > >> > >> No errors, no anything, it just hangs -- I assuming that ZipArchive is > not > >> available. > >> > >> --- > >> > >> However, on server [2] (Daniel Brown's most excellent service, btw), > >> everything works great -- as is usual (every time I say something like > this > >> he gives me another month of free service). :-) > >> > >> I've done phpinfo's on both servers, but don't see any obvious > differences. > >> > >> Outside of running my script on different servers to see if it works, is > >> there anyway I can tell beforehand if ZipArchive is available or not? > > > > > > if(class_exists('ZipArchive', false)) > > $zip = new ZipArchive(); > > else > > trigger_error('class ZipArchive does not exist!', E_USER_NOTICE); > > > > -nathan > > > > But it deals with classes therefore it must thrown an exception, right? ;D only if you want to be able to detect the error from the calling code and do something as a result. i just put this there, mainly as an example :)