On 20/08/2011, at 4:51 PM, Andreas wrote:
> Hi,
> I wrote stuff with file_put_contents() in a try{} catch{} and it worked.
>
> Then I'd like to check what happens when some error occurs so I writeprotected the targetfile.
> Instead of getting my own message by the catch{} block I got a standard warning in the browser.
>
> Can't I catch those warnings, too?
> And why does this function rise a warning when it can't acomplish it's task?
>
>
> Samplecode:
> try {
> $msg = date ("d.m.Y H:i:s") . 'This should be stored in the file.';
> file_put_contents( '/tmp/exceptions.txt', $msg . "\n", FILE_APPEND);
> }
> catch ( Exception $e ) {
> $msg = "Exception " . $e->getCode() . " / " . $e->getMessage();
> echo "<p>$msg</p>";
> }
file_put_contents() doesn't throw exceptions. As the note on the exception documentation says: "Internal PHP functions mainly use Error reporting, only modern Object oriented extensions use exceptions."
If you look at the documentation for its return value (http://php.net/file_put_contents), you'll see that false is returned on failure.
In this case, a warning makes more sense than throwing an exception anyway. A warning can be ignored, either by changing the error_reporting level or using the error control operator, whereas an exception must be dealt with or execution halts.
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