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Theory If you have not already, check the official php documentation on exceptions at http://php.net/manual/en/language.exceptions.php. Besides some php specifics, here you can find basic example how to use try catch blocks and how to work with exceptions. Example goes like this: function inverse($x) { if (!$x) { throw new Exception('Division by zero.'); } else return 1/$x; } try { echo inverse(5) . "\n"; echo inverse(0) . "\n"; } catch (Exception $e) { echo 'Caught exception: ', $e->getMessage(), "\n"; } // Continue execution echo 'Hello World'; Through this example you can see that if a process finds itself in a problematic situation, it can throw an exception. This exception can be caught, and that way we will prevent system to run into some php fatal error. This are the theoretical basics, however, the real question is how and where to use exception handling in your  applications and scripts. Front Controller Front C...

    I work as a professional programmer for 10 years and in those 10 years I met a bunch of different developers. In plenty of them, especially in web / php developers, I could notice a lack of understanding of the concept of throwing and catching exceptions and what does it serves for. Of course, the first I noticed it at myself. In this blog I would like to point out a number of useful things that proper use of the exception can make, and which were slipping from my hands for a few years too.      Exceptions are providing a standardized way to control problematic processes and they are reducing the possibility of fatal errors in the application . If process throws exception, you are forced to handle situation in your application, and it will automatically reduce the possibility that some problem sleeps out whit out being processed. When you're working with exceptions, you are handling problems at low level, so it will not make you problems with your highe...