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Some More Methods to Handle Exceptions

Explore advanced methods to handle exceptions in PHP, including retrieving the file and line of errors using getFile and getLine, logging exceptions with error_log, and understanding when to apply exception handling for external errors.

Additional exception handling methods

The Exception class is a PHP built-in class that provides several helpful methods. Though we’ve just used getMessage() so far, there are a lot of other methods as well. The following two are particularly useful:

  • getFile() returns the path to the file in which the error occurred.
  • getLine() returns the line in which the exception occurred.

We can now use the getFile() and getLine() ...