Re: Exceptions and Errors

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Greg Beaver wrote: > Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg wrote: > > > I am willing to concede that SQL parse errors aren't the best example > > here, but that doesn't mean extensions should never throw exceptions. > > If a user has written code expecting it to work in PHP 4 and PHP 5 with > a registered error handler, it has to be completely rewritten. If you're expecting this code to work in both PHP 4 and PHP 5, you're not using the OO extension interface, so no exceptions will be thrown. Things will work just like before. I also presume that exceptions are not handled by a registed error handler. That would be madness. :) I think by now I am resigned to the situation that PHP's internal error reporting system doesn't doesn't map well to exception handling. This problem is at least somewhat related to inconsistent application of E_WARNINGs, E_ERRORs, etc. Certain extensions (SOAP, Ming) love to throw E_ERRORs. Others won't throw an E_ERROR in even the worst of circumstances. Therefore, sometimes E_WARNINGs are harmless and other times they're fatal. Oh well. -adam -- adam@trachtenberg.com author of o'reilly's php cookbook avoid the holiday rush, buy your copy today!