Best way to handle errors on a php page?

Question

Right now my pages look something like this:

if($_GET[\'something\'] == \'somevalue\')
{
    $output .= \'somecode\';

    // make a DB query, fetch a row
           


        

Answer 1

PDO error exception handling for queries, and really all code should be run through:

try{

}

catch{


}

finally{

}

The reason for this, is it makes debugging much easier when you can pinpoint roughly where in lengthy scripts an error is occuring

more info here: http://php.net/manual/en/language.exceptions.php