PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception'

Question

I\'m playing around with exceptions in PHP. For example, I have a script that reads a $_GET request and loads a file; If the file doesn\'t exists, an new exception should be

Answer 1

This is expected behavior for an uncaught exception with display_errors off.

Your options here are to turn on display_errors via php or in the ini file or catch and output the exception.

 ini_set("display_errors", 1);

or

 try{
     // code that may throw an exception
 } catch(Exception $e){
     echo $e->getMessage();
 }

If you are throwing exceptions, the intention is that somewhere further down the line something will catch and deal with it. If not it is a server error (500).

Another option for you would be to use set_exception_handler to set a default error handler for your script.

 function default_exception_handler(Exception $e){
          // show something to the user letting them know we fell down
          echo "
Something Bad Happened
";
          echo "
We fill find the person responsible and have them shot
";
          // do some logging for the exception and call the kill_programmer function.
 }
 set_exception_handler("default_exception_handler");