ZEND PHP 5 Certification STUDY GUIDE

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Errors and Error Management
Errors are an integral part of every computer language—although one that, most of
the time, programmers would rather not have to deal with!
PHP has some excellent facilities for dealing with errors that provide an excellent
level of fine-grained control over how errors are thrown, handled and reported.
Proper error management is essential to writing applications that are both stable and
capable of detecting when the inevitable problem arises, thus handling failure in a
graceful manner.
In this chapter, we only cover PHP’s traditional facilities for error management in procedural
code. PHP 5’s new object-oriented error management is discussed in the
Object-oriented Programming in PHP chapter.
Types of Errors
There are several types of errors—usually referred to as error levels in PHP:
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