PHP If file_get_contents fails, do this instead

Question

I have a function to translate the current text string using the Free Bing translator API. I just want to make sure if anything fails or something happens with the Applicat

Answer 1

Have you tried failing it on purpose to see what happens?

If it's an exception, just catch it and handle it...

try{
    //enter code to catch
}catch(Exception $ex){
    //Process the exception
}

If there is an error outputted by the function, just @ to hide the error and handle the incorrect output of $translate_feed or $translate manually.

You can try failing it on purpose by simply passing an invalid URI to file_get_contents and then forcefully feed non XML or invalid XML to simplexml_load_string to see what happens.