Re: Mail_IMAP 2.0.0 alpha 1

On Jul 6, 2004, at 10:36 AM, Klaus Guenther wrote:

David Costa wrote:

just jumping into this, I don't think we should force errorStack vs exceptions in PHP 5. Cheers David Costa

This was not my suggestion. For notices/warnings, ErrorStack is currently the best solution we have.

I disagree. PHP 5 provides a good mechanism to handle the same notices via exceptions and PEAR_Exceptions is simple enough for every PHP 5 developer. I have no problem whatsoever with developers who might prefer to use ErrorStack but I would have a major problem to add yet another mechanism when PHP 5 already provides the right tool to achieve the same result.

For errors/exceptions, we can use PEAR_Exception. I don't see a problem with enforcing the use of the two packages for their respective purposes. well for my PHP 5 package I would use something like:

 if (!count($this->database)) {

       throw new PEAR_Exception(self::DB_SQLITE_TOOLS_NAR."$this->database", -1);
       }

I don't really see why I would need to add something else on the top of the exception. Oh well, since ErrorStack is not PHP 5 ready I shouldn't worry too much about it within my package ;) Cheers David

Klaus