Exception handling??

[bartt]

I've done a few sites with PHP and love it.
Now I am trying to get it some attention at the office and some questions have come up that I cannot answer:

How does PHP handle exceptions? If a COM object throws an exception, how is this handled by my php script or class.

Can I throw an exception from PHP?

Is there a construct like try - catch() in PHP?

I understand Session vars pretty well, are there such a things as global (system wide ) vars?

Thanks for any insite into these areas..

[ednark]

the new pre release of php (4.3.0) has a try-catch style exception handling, but current versions do not...

you are better off using a global variable... for instance define your own $GLOBALS['my_errors_var_name'] as an array to hold your error objects or just error messages or somthing... or make a function error() to which you pass any relevent information...

but for the time being you can't use that sexy syntax... im glad php put it in finally in 4.3.0

[bartt]

Thanks for the reply..

So if a COM object throws an exception my code will probably just die..?

That's sort of what I thought.

I am trying to get others to look at PHP as an alternative to .NET <cough>..

Given that we have to deal with some COM obj's for the XML stream the portability feature is moot point. But if I can demonstrate other good features, then I have an argument.

I've already demonstrated the XML parsing and separation of content and code using PHP. If there are other features that anyone can recommend, i'd sure appreciate it..

😕

[natstar]

I take it that the usage for the 4.3.0 exception handling hasnt made it to the docs yet.. any ideas? trigger_error doesnt seem very palatable...

cheers.
Natalia