PHP: 'or' statement on instruction fail: how to throw a new exception?

Question

Everyone here should know the \'or\' statemens, usually glued to an die() command:

$foo = bar() or die(\'Error: bar function return false.\');

Answer 1

I've simply defined the function toss for this.

function toss(Exception $exception): void
{
    throw $exception;
}

Because the file/line/stack information is captured when the exception is constructed (new) not thrown (throw) this doesn't interfere with the call stack.

So you can just do this.

something() or toss(new Exception('something failed'));