Facebook PHP SDK Throwing an Uncatchable OAuthException

Answer 1

So, something that's not outline above is that I'm utilizing PHP namespaces. This is a big gotchta since namespaces are relatively new to php, it's super easily overlooked I feel. Regardless, it's a pretty silly oversight/error.

If you're in a defined namespace (that is, not the root (\) namespace) you don't have direct access to the Exception class. Instead of php throwing a warning about not knowing what that class is, it just ignores the fact that it doesn't know what it is - and doesn't catch the exception.

Solution 1:

import the exception class:

Solution 2:

provide the full path to the exception class: