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PHP Handling Uncaught Exceptions

Posted by Laurie Addoms
Laurie Addoms
14,568 Points

Why Write Exception Handlers?

We wrote 20 lines of code in this lesson for the custom exception handler to tell us the same thing the default error handler told us. Why bother?

1 Answer

Glenré Charl Labuschagné
Glenré Charl Labuschagné
23,204 Points
Glenré Charl Labuschagné
Glenré Charl Labuschagné
23,204 Points

Exception handlers are most useful when your code is deployed to a production server where display errors should be switched 'Off'. This allows you to customize how your application handle errors in the event that something goes wrong, especially where things are out of your control like a server error of some sort.