Re: Programming structures

Hi alex! On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, alex wrote: > I'm trying to figure out what's the best way to structure all my code and I > have some doubts about it.. here are some thoughts: > When it comes to handling errors I usually do one of the following: > > <? > $foo = my_function() or die("some text explaining the problem"); > ?> > Are there other better alternatives than the ones I've showed up in the > examples above? > What's your prefered way to handle that kind of problems? My recent favourite one is ussing assert(). It's half a try{} catch(){}, I mean only one way :), cause you cannot go back to the context. To use it, activate it from php.ini and say for assert.callback = assert_hook then define assert_hook: function assert_hook ($file, $line) { include 'error.inc'; print ("<!-- assert failed in $file:$line -->"); // eventually print ("<!--"); ob_start(); var_dump ($GLOBALS); var_dump ($WHATEVER_ELSE); //don't forget to `global' it first print (ob_get_contents()); ob_end_clean(); print ("-->"); } you can do anything else here, of course (and also note assert_hook can be different for different php files.) Another one would be set_error_handler(), which is kindof the same, except that to use assertions you would write: assert ($foo = my_function()); while the second one would be triggered only on PHP errors. hope it helps, -- teodor