Question

I have a class and the commented line is failing (clearly because I don’t need the $ before displayname), however I ended up having to put a bunch of echo statements in to figure that out because an error isn’t being thrown.

I’m hoping there is a way.

class RegisterModel {
    var $displayname;
    ...
    function RegisterModel() {
        try {
            if (empty($_POST) === false) {
                // THIS LINE IS FAILING ... BUT I'M NOT GETTING AN ERROR
                // I KNOW WHY IT'S FAILING ... BUT I WANT AN ERROR TO THROW
                $this->$displayname = $_POST['displayname'];
                ...
            }
        }
        catch (Exception $e) {
            echo $e->getMessage();
        }
    }
}

Should the error be getting thrown into the catch and I’m just not using it right? Is there some global setting I need to set so that the errors are thrown?

Answer 1

set_error_handler(function($errno ,$errstr,$errfile,$errline,$errcontext){
   if($errno & error_reporting()) throw new Exception($errstr,$errno);
});

Keep in mind you want to set error_reporting to your desired level.