Question

I am trying to catch an error on object creation, because this object can and should sometimes throw an error.

try {
    $obj = new MyObject();
} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo 'Caught exception: ';
}

I want to do a lot of things with this new object, but only IF it was created without throwing an exception.

The problem is that I do not wish to do all these things inside the try catch block. How would I accomplish this?

Thanks a lot
Michael

Answer 1

I really can’t see any reason for what you are asking, but maybe the best thing is to do all the other stuff in a function that you call from the try/catch block…

function allMyStuff($obj){
  // do some stuff to $obj here
}

try {
  $obj = new MyObject();
  allMyStuff($obj);
} catch (Exception $e) {
  echo 'Caught exception: ';
}

Otherwise, to do literally as you seem to be asking, you could set a switch before the try/catch block to on, and set it to off in the catch block. That way you can test the switch to see whether to execute all your other stuff.

$mySwitch = true;

try {
  $obj = new MyObject();
} catch (Exception $e) {
  echo 'Caught exception: ';
  $mySwitch = false;
}

if($mySwitch){
  // do some stuff here
}