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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] exceptions instead of errors
From: marcus.boerger@t-online.de ((Marcus =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=F6rger?=))

At 16:23 11.05.2003, Derick Rethans wrote:
>On Sun, 4 May 2003, Sterling Hughes wrote:
>
> > Just a note that I'd really like to see this.  One of the great things
> > about exceptions will be:
> >
> > try {
> >   $m = mysql_connect("localhost", "user", "pass");
> >   $sth = mysql_query("select bar from foo", $m);
> >   while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($sth)) {
> >     echo $row[0];
> >   }
> >   mysql_close($m);
> > } catch (exception $e) {
> >   echo $e->getMessage();
> > }
> >
> > This allows you to remove all the nasty if ($conn) could, and move your
> > error handling into a singular place. I *really* would like this for
> > internal functions.  We could also make a new type of exception
> > "internalexception," which a user has to specifically catch.  This way
> > unless you explictly specify that you want to catch an
> > internalexception, it will default to just outputting an error message.
>
>Sounds like a great idea to me!


Yes to me, too! I'll change my error2exception thingie to reflect your idea.

marcus