PEAR::raiseError() question

128kb_com

For some reason I can't get PEAR's raiseError() method to work for the life of me. I haven't been able to find anything in the documentation except its use within examples. The example below illustrates my problem.

require_once 'PEAR.php';

class Example extends PEAR
{
	function Example($str) {
		$this->PEAR(); // call to super class constructor
		$this->raiseError($str);
	}
}

$ex = &new Example("This should be printed to stderr");

And nothing is output all all, no matter where I invoke raiseError(). Does anyone know if this has been depreciated or if I'm using it incorrectly?? I'm using php4.3.0

juschillinnow

1). try returning the value and echoing.

2). try include("PEAR.php");

3). are you sure PEAR.php is being picked up. do you have to put the complete path to PEAR in?

128kb_com

Yes, PEAR is included because it is in my default include path, or else I would get errors from that. Also the syntax:

require_once 'PEAR.php';

is PEAR standards, require_once is a construct, not a function. So require_once 'file.php' is the same as require_once('file.php') and lastly include("PEAR.php") has the possiblity of including pear more than once and continuing execution if it was not included successfully.

Everthing is working properly, calls to all of PEAR and PEAR_Error methods are successful except raiseError(), there are no error messages about raiseError() not being a decalred function either, it just wont raise an error??

juschillinnow

ok, but did you try echoing the error?
echo "$this->raiseError($str)";

or try returing the value and echoing it outside of the class.

128kb_com

Even statically invoking PEAR::raiseError("error message"); does not do the trick. Of course I can create my own error handling methods but I should be able to just use PEAR's if I'm extending it and I would also like my code to be 100% PEAR compliant.

128kb_com

Ok, I've got it. It seems that PEAR::raiseError() not only wants an error string as its first argument but wants an error code and an error level (which are optional) to actually print errors, like so:

PEAR::raiseError($errstr, $errcode, 2);

The last argument must be the error level , so I guess by passing it something larger than 1 will force printing errors raised.

So my next question is, for those of you with experience with PEAR, how would I get PEAR to report errors with calls to raiseError() without having to supply the errocode and error level along with the errror string?? I've tried PEAR::setErrorHandling() but without luck.

128kb_com

PEAR::setErrorHandling(PEAR_ERROR_PRINT);

resloved my last problem.