Re: Method check - Can someone create a RFC for it?

On 03/20/2013 11:43 AM, Carlos Rodrigues wrote:

Like Mike emaild me, i can just change my code to something like $obj->getImage()->getUrl(), where getImage() will return a mock object with getUrl() returning an empty string. But my request here is not about this case only. Imagine you have a web page with 3 blocks of information. Let's say "news", "partners" and "blog". Now if for some reason you didn't code it right, you might get a fatal error in one of these "blocks". I'd love to have a way to try/catch these blocks, Currently i can only do this using ajax, or running shell exec "php block.php" for each one. If we could catch fatal errors, or at least the "Call to a member function on a non-object", we could have this code in our Zend Framework implementations, wrapping each view in a try/catch, and showing a "error, sorry", in case the view has errors. - Carlos

Carlos, You should take a look at the other thread that's been in the internals group over the last day or so. There is an effort to see cases like this become E_RECOVERABLE_ERRORs, which I think would address what you're really looking for. (In fact, this particular error is mentioned first in that thread.) But I would argue that, while this is a change I support, this is not a substitute for proper testing prior to code deployment (as others have pointed out). -Matt