Re: MySQL class. Thoughts?

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 02:30:00PM -0600, Jay Moore wrote: > Good ideas guys. The input is much appreciated. > > Jochem (and anyone else, I guess), as I am not 100% versed with > Exceptions, the php5 version you suggested, are those Exceptions able to > be handled outside the class? > > Do I need my try block to be within the class block, or can I have the > try block be in my normal code where I actually instantiate the class? > > This: > > class blah > { > try { stuff } catch (exception) { more stuff } > } > > $i = new blah() > > or can I do this: > > class blah > { > do some stuff (no try/catch blocks here) > throw an exception > } > > try > { > > $i = new blah(); > more stuff > } > catch (exception) { even more stuff } > I know it's very OO-y to use exceptions, but I hate them. They're like setjmp/longjmp calls in C, and they're a really headache to deal with. If you don't use default or predone handlers, you have to put all kinds of try/catch blocks around everything. They make for non-linear execution, and I prefer my code to execute in a linear fashion. Paul -- Paul M. Foster