Re: how catch a warning by file_put_contents() ?

On 20/08/2011, at 4:51 PM, Andreas wrote: > Hi, > I wrote stuff with file_put_contents() in a try{} catch{} and it worked. > > Then I'd like to check what happens when some error occurs so I writeprotected the > targetfile. > Instead of getting my own message by the catch{} block I got a standard warning in the browser. > > Can't I catch those warnings, too? > And why does this function rise a warning when it can't acomplish it's task? > > > Samplecode: > try { > $msg = date ("d.m.Y H:i:s") . 'This should be stored in the file.'; > file_put_contents( '/tmp/exceptions.txt', $msg . "\n", FILE_APPEND); > } > catch ( Exception $e ) { > $msg = "Exception " . $e->getCode() . " / " . > $e->getMessage(); > echo "<p>$msg</p>"; > } file_put_contents() doesn't throw exceptions. As the note on the exception documentation says: "Internal PHP functions mainly use Error reporting, only modern Object oriented extensions use exceptions." If you look at the documentation for its return value (http://php.net/file_put_contents), you'll see that false is returned on failure. In this case, a warning makes more sense than throwing an exception anyway. A warning can be ignored, either by changing the error_reporting level or using the error control operator, whereas an exception must be dealt with or execution halts. --- Simon Welsh Admin of http://simon.geek.nz/