Try/Catch block in PHP not catching Exception

Question

I am trying to run this Example #1 from this page: http://php.net/manual/en/language.exceptions.php

Answer 1

Quite old question, yet...

I had this problem as well (and that's how I found this post) but just simple experiment allowed me to find the solution. Just try changing Exception to \Exception. Worked for me!

EDIT:

As sivann pointed in the comments, using namespace should do the same thing. So simply put use \Exception as Exception; before your class declaration.