Posted by Jochem Maas on 03/13/05 02:27

Jochem Maas wrote:
> Richard Lynch wrote:
>
>>>> php.net/dom
>>>
>>>
>>> ??
>>>
>>> Like this?
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> try {
>>>
>>> $dom = new DOMDocument();
>>>
>>> $config =
>>> $dom->appendChild($dom->importNode(dom_import_simplexml($this->configXML),true));
>>>
>>>
>>> $config->appendChild( $dom->createElement(($mode?
>>> 'softactive':'active'))
>>> );
>>>
>>> $this->configXML = simplexml_import_dom($config);
>>>
>>> } catch(Exception $e) {}
>>
>>
>>
>> I dunno about that whole try/catch thing, but if you're not going to USE
>> it to catch the errors, then you might as well be old school and check
>> the
>
>
> the try/catch block only catch exceptions, you still have to handle the std
> errors as normally would - for the old school its business as usual,
> only this
> simester there are a couple of new kids in the class :-).
>
> I'm pretty sure there was alot of discussion about whether to throw
> exceptions
> or trigger errors in the new php5 extensions. I can't actually think of
> any place
> in php5 or the extensions I use where the engine throws an Exceptions...

I happened upon atleast one place where you can have the engine throw Exceptions
iso triggering errors

this:
$db->setAttribute( PDO_ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO_ERRMODE_EXCEPTION );

I found here;
http://wiki.cc/php/PDO_Basics

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