Exceptions

Zephir implements exceptions at a very low level, providing similar behavior and functionality to PHP.

When an exception is thrown, a catch block can be used to capture the exception and allow the developer to provide proper handling:

Exceptions can be thrown inside the try block. Handling happens in the catch block, exactly as in PHP:

var e;
try {

    throw new \Exception("This is an exception");

} catch \Exception, e {

    echo e->getMessage();
}

Zephir also provides a “silent” try block, that simply ignores any exceptions produced within that block:

try {
    throw new \Exception("This is an exception");
}

If you don’t need an exception variable when ‘catch’ing, then you can safely not provide it:

try {

    throw new \Exception("This is an exception");

} catch \Exception {

    echo "An exception occur!";
}

A single catch block can be used to catch multiple types of exception:

var e;
try {

    throw new \Exception("This is an exception");

} catch \RuntimeException|\Exception, e {

    echo e->getMessage();
}

Zephir allows you to throw literals or static typed variables as if they were the message of the exception:

// throw new \Exception("Test");
throw "Test";

// throw new \Exception((string) 't');
throw 't';

// throw new \Exception((string) 123);
throw 123;

// throw new \Exception((string) 123.123);
throw 123.123;

Zephir’s exceptions provide the same methods to know where the exception happened that PHP’s exceptions do. That is, Exception::getFile() and Exception::getLine() return the location in the Zephir code where the exception was thrown:

Exception: The static method 'someMethod' does not exist on model 'Robots'
File=phalcon/mvc/model.zep Line=4042
#0 /home/scott/test.php(64): Phalcon\Mvc\Model::__callStatic('someMethod', Array)
#1 /home/scott/test.php(64): Robots::someMethod()
#2 {main}