Can't catch symfony FatalErrorException

Question

I have code like this:

try {
    $var = $object->getCollection()->first()->getItem()->getName();
} catch(\\Exception $e) {
    $var = null;
}
         


        

Answer 1

Works for me (PHP 7.0, Symfony 3.0.9):

use Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\FatalThrowableError;
...
try {
    throw new FatalErrorException("something happened!", 0, 1, __FILE__, __LINE__);
} catch (FatalErrorException $e) {
    echo "Caught exception of class: " . get_class($e) . PHP_EOL;
}

Output:

Caught exception of class: Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\FatalErrorException