Re: Throwing an exception seems to defeat output buffering

Output buffer is flushed at the end of script. When you throw that exception in try block, this command: exit( 'Contents: ' . ob_get_clean()); never executes and it continues to catch block where you are outputing exception message, and it is added to the buffer, then the script ends and buffer flushes. ======================= "Leif Wickland" <leifwickland@gmail.com> pí¹e v diskusním pøíspìvku news:c5b9ee2c0902022202v6e2a071emfb062aa868ed7fa8@mail.gmail.com... >I would expect that if I turn on output buffering, echo something, > throw an exception, > and catch the exception, nothing will have been actually output. That > doesn't seem > to be the case. Throwing an exception seems to defeat output buffering. > > In the following code, I would not expect to see the <h1>, but I do. > > > > <? > try { > ob_start(); > echo '<h1>You should not see this!</h1>'; > throw new Exception('<h2>This should be the first output.</h2>'); > exit( 'Contents: ' . ob_get_clean()); > } > catch (Exception $ex) { > exit('<h2>Exception:</h2>' . $ex->getMessage()); > } > > > > I'm exercising that code on PHP 5.2.4 and 5.2.8. > > Does anybody know why throwing an exception seems to override > ob_start(), flushing the buffered output? Is there a workaround? > > Thank you, > > Leif Wickland