Using Exception Without Using Try Catch Block

[slier81]

Hi There..

Im totally new to php..so please excuse me if my question looks like an idiot

Is there a possibility to use exception withoust using try catch block

Let say i have Thing Class

<?php

class Thing
{
    public function __construct($required)
    {
        $this->foo();

        if (!$required)
        {
            throw new Exception('$required is missing');

        }

        $this->bar();
    }

    public function foo()
    {
        echo "bla";
    }

    public function bar()
    {
        echo "blar";
    }
}

And this how i use it

try
{
    $myvar = new Thing($required);
}
catch (Exception $e)
{
    $e->getMessage();
} 

See i need to use that class in try catch block..
Its look really weird..Many php source code i have look into dosent have any try catch block in it
If i use that class without try catch block,i will got Fatal error

Is there a way that i can use that Thing class without wrap it in try catch block

Just like this

$myvar = new Thing($required); 

[JAY6390]

Yes. You can use

$myvar = new Thing($required); 

[crmalibu]

Is there a way that i can use that Thing class without wrap it in try catch block

No. Well, not unless you either:

modify the class to somehow properly handle its own problem
or
you can make sure the exception never gets thrown

[Cups]

Surely this is just bad design:

   public function __construct($required)
        $this->foo();

        if (!$required)
        {
            throw new Exception('$required is missing');
        } 

You should either give $required a default value, and check for that:

   public function __construct($required = NULL )
        $this->foo();

        if ( $required === NULL )
        {
            throw new Exception('$required is missing');
        } 

or, do it as originally posted and face a Fatal error because argument 1 is not set?

Does this not all depend on whether this part of application has to :

- die
- try and carry on

?

[slier81]

ignore the design pls..
ya i know its kinda bad design..but the mian question is..i see other ppl code that use exception in their library,
but when they use that library they dont wrap it in try catch block..
i just want to mimic what they doing
how about use set_exception_handler() ?

[crmalibu]

Yes, if you want your program to terminate, set_exception_handler() could be used.

function myExceptionHandler ($e) {
    echo "a bad error occurred that the programmer did not anticipate. exiting...";
}
set_exception_handler("myExceptionHandler"); 

[slier81]

is there any way that allow program does not terminate when using this set_exception_handler() ?

[crmalibu]

If you don't want the program to terminate, you need to handle the exception before it gets to your exception handler. The exception is an error condition, and must be addressed.

You're probably gonna battle exceptions until you do some reading up on how they work, and why they are used.

You could do something like this, but I don't think this is really any better.

function make_a_thing_quietly($required) {
    try {
        return new Thing($required);
    } catch (Exception $e) {
        return false;
    }
} 

-You still need to check if it was successful.
-You still need to do something else if it fails.

[Fax]

Why use Exceptions if you don't intend to catch them within your application? Use trigger_error instead.