note 51205 deleted from language.exceptions by nlopess

Note Submitter: Bill Kuker ---- In an application made of many pages each of which includes a standard header and footer I found myself wanting to be able to define a top level try / catch block with a default error screen. Unfortunatly you cant put 'try{' in header.inc and '}catch...' in footer.inc. My solution is to do away with the footer and just require_once a header.inc that looks like this: //Output header try{ ob_start(); include($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); ob_end_flush(); } catch (Exception $e){ ob_end_clean(); //error screen } //Output Footer die(); This in effect wraps the including page in the try / catch block. Note the importance of where I require_once vs where I include, and that you would not want to run header.inc directly ;)