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PHP PHP & Databases with PDO PDO Queries & Results Queries with PDO

Posted by gregsmith5
gregsmith5
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Error handling - how much is it used in production?

We're getting to our second use of the try/catch construction in our code. Exception handling is something that's not extensively covered in tutorials, and even here at TTH, we don't use it in our example projects. I'm wondering, how often is it used out in the wild of professional web development? How do we learn best practice for using try/catch?

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Ted Sumner
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Ted Sumner
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Ted Sumner
Ted Sumner
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As you get further into the PHP courses you start to see try catch blocks more often. I know that I have been using them extensively in a project I am developing. They also say you should never have an uncaught error. My first thought was why would I have an error if it was working on deployment. But then I realized there may be an issue with the database or the code gets corrupted. It is important to make sure the errors are caught for that reason on deployment.

Ted Sumner
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Ted Sumner
Ted Sumner
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Another point is that the PHP manual wraps example code in try/catch blocks. I think that is a good indication of the importance of using them.

Anthony Martinez
Anthony Martinez
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Anthony Martinez
Anthony Martinez
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Try/catch statements and other implementations of control flow are fairly standard. You may not see them outright when you're interacting with a website or service, but they're a pretty common and arguably foundational aspect to any program. Any backend service almost certainly uses try/catch blocks. Hope that's helpful.