>
> Moreover, I'd rather we get rid of the warning modes all together as they
> make the least sense to me.
> Either you're handling the failures explicitly anyway and you use the
> silent mode, or you don't and want it to throw with the exception mode.
> The warning mode is literally the worst of both worlds, it doesn't fail on
> failure so you need to check for failure manually,
> and you need to suppress the warnings because otherwise you get false
> negatives.
>
> Best regards,
>
> George P. Banyard
>
I'd just like to say amen to that.
Please move as much code as possible to throwing exceptions, and get rid of
warnings. Most of the time when a warning is thrown in PHP, what you
actually want is to deal with it, or stop execution.
- Benjamin