Question

How to suppress the “Division by zero” error and set the result to null for the whole application? By saying “for the whole application”, I mean it is not for a single expression. Instead, whenever a “Division by zero” error occurs, the result is set to null automatically and no error will be thrown.

Answer 1

This should do the trick.

$a = @(1/0); 
if(false === $a) {
  $a = null;
}
var_dump($a);

outputs

NULL

See the refs here error controls.

EDIT

function division($a, $b) {
    $c = @(a/b); 
    if($b === 0) {
      $c = null;
    }
    return $c;
}

In any place substitute 1/0 by the function call division(1,0).

EDIT – Without third variable

function division($a, $b) {         
    if($b === 0)
      return null;

    return $a/$b;
}