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.

Answer 2

This is expected behavior for an uncaught exception with display_errors off.

Your options here are to turn on display_errors via php or in the ini file or catch and output the exception.

 ini_set("display_errors", 1);

or

 try{
     // code that may throw an exception
 } catch(Exception $e){
     echo $e->getMessage();
 }

If you are throwing exceptions, the intention is that somewhere further down the line something will catch and deal with it. If not it is a server error (500).

Another option for you would be to use set_exception_handler to set a default error handler for your script.

 function default_exception_handler(Exception $e){
          // show something to the user letting them know we fell down
          echo "<h2>Something Bad Happened</h2>";
          echo "<p>We fill find the person responsible and have them shot</p>";
          // do some logging for the exception and call the kill_programmer function.
 }
 set_exception_handler("default_exception_handler");

Answer 3

For

throw new Exception('test exception');

I got 500 (but didn't see anything in the browser), until I put

php_flag display_errors on

in my .htaccess (just for a subfolder). There are also more detailed settings, see Enabling error display in php via htaccess only