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PHP

Posted by Darrel Lyons
Darrel Lyons
2,991 Points

Exit(); or Die();

Whenever i use exit(); or die();, the backgrounds are always white. How to i make it so it stays as the original background?

EDIT: I've sorted it. I placed the PHP underneath my link to the stylesheet.

1 Answer

James Andrews
James Andrews
7,245 Points
James Andrews
James Andrews
7,245 Points

don't use exit or die. Exit is usually used when you want to do something like 

echo json_encode($jsonArray);

die()

is really meant for command line php scripts. Using it on web pages is bad.

you should be using try /catch blocks with exceptions to handle problems in php and relay them to the user.

try
{
    if(!$success) throw new Exception("Something went wrong");

}
catch(Exception $e)
{
    echo $e->getMessage();
}