PHP and MySQL Web Development 4th Ed-tqw-_darksiderg

198 Chapter 7 Error and Exception Handling
Listing 7.3
Continued
}
}
";
try
{
throw new myException("A terrible error has occurred", 42);
}
catch (myException $m)
{
echo $m;
}
?>
In this code, you declare a new exception class, called myException, that extends the
basic Exception class.The difference between this class and the Exception class is that
you override the __toString() method to provide a “pretty” way of printing the
exception.The output from executing this code is shown in Figure 7.2.
Figure 7.2
The myException class provides exceptions with
“pretty printing.”