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

You can not use the typical try{} catch{} blocks in PHP as you could do in another language like C# (Csharp).

If you do this:

try{
    //division by zero
    $number = 5/0;
}
catch(Exception $ex){
    echo 'Got it!';
}

You will not see the 'Got it!' message never. Why? It's just because PHP always needs an Exception to be "Thrown". You need to set your own error handler and throw an Exception with it.

See set_error_handler function: http://php.net/manual/es/function.set-error-handler.php