On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Lamp Lists <lamp.lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > ________________________________ > From: Marc Steinert <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: Lamp Lists <lamp.lists@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 11:27:08 AM > Subject: Re: try - catch is not so clear to me... > > Basically try-catch gives you the ability to handle errors outside a class > or method scope, by the calling instance. > This comes in handy, if you are programming in an object orientated way and > thus enables you to seperate error handling from the rest of your > functionality. > Means, your methods do only the things, they are meant to do, without > bothering to handling occuring errors. > Hope, that made things clearer. > > Greetings from Germany > > Marc > > Lamp Lists wrote: > > >> hi to all! > >> > >> actually, the statement in the Subject line is not 100% correct. I > understand the purpose and how it works (at least I think I understand :-)) > but to me it's so complicated way? > >> > > > -- http://bithub.net/ > Synchronize and share your files over the web for free > > > My Twitter feed > http://twitter.com/MarcSteinert > > > > > Looks like I still didn't get it correctly: > > try > { > if (!send_confirmation_email($email, $subject, $content)) > { > throw new Exception('Confirmation email is not sent'); > } > > } > catch (Exception $e) > { > send_email_with_error_to_admin($e, $content); > } > > why am I getting both emails? I'm receiving confirmation email and email > with error message - that I'm supposed to get if the first one is not sent > for some reason?!?!?!? > > thanks for any help. > > -LL > > > what does this function [send_confirmation_email($email, $subject, $content)] return? -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat
