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

Just adding a bit of extra information here in case someone has the same issue as me.

I use namespaces in my code and I had a class with a function that throws an Exception.

However my try/catch code in another class file was completely ignored and the normal PHP error for an uncatched exception was thrown.

Turned out I forgot to add "use \Exception;" at the top, adding that solved the error.