Sign Up

Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.

Have an account? Sign In

Have an account? Sign In Now

Sign In

Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.

Sign Up Here

Forgot Password?

Don't have account, Sign Up Here

Forgot Password

Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.

Have an account? Sign In Now

You must login to ask a question.

Forgot Password?

Need An Account, Sign Up Here

Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.

Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.

Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.

Sign InSign Up

The Archive Base

The Archive Base Logo The Archive Base Logo

The Archive Base Navigation

  • Home
  • SEARCH
  • About Us
  • Blog
  • Contact Us
Search
Ask A Question

Mobile menu

Close
Ask a Question
  • Home
  • Add group
  • Groups page
  • Feed
  • User Profile
  • Communities
  • Questions
    • New Questions
    • Trending Questions
    • Must read Questions
    • Hot Questions
  • Polls
  • Tags
  • Badges
  • Buy Points
  • Users
  • Help
  • Buy Theme
  • SEARCH
Home/ Questions/Q 6354609
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Editorial Team
Asked: May 24, 20262026-05-24T22:36:09+00:00 2026-05-24T22:36:09+00:00

I would like to know how to do a basic Try Catch block that

  • 0

I would like to know how to do a basic Try Catch block that prints a message if there are no files in a directory

This is what I tried:

<?php

$dbhost = 'localhost';
$dbuser = 'admin';
$dbpass = 'root';
$conn = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass) or die ('Error connecting to mysql');

$dbname = 'files';
mysql_select_db($dbname);


mysql_query("TRUNCATE files_tbl");

 if ($handle = opendir('./pdf/')) {



   while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle)))
      {


          if ($file != "." && $file != "..")   {

          if ( ($file = @scandir('./pdf/') && (count($file) > 0) ) ) {

          $directory_not_empty = TRUE;
          } {
                throw new Exception('No files in database');
        } try {

            @$thelist .= '<font face="Calibri" size="4"><p><b><img src="images/document.png"> '.$file.'<br></b></p></a></font>';

            $query = "INSERT INTO files.files_tbl(Name) VALUES ('$file');";


            mysql_query($query) or die('Error, Insert query failed' . mysql_error());

          } catch (Exception $e) {
                die ($e->getMessage);


       }

       }

}

  closedir($handle);
  }


?>

<html>
    <head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css">
        <title>Search the Database</title>
    </head>

    <body>

    <div align="right"><form action="search.php" method="post">
    <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="8" ><b>Document Database</b> </font></div>
     <font face="Arial" size="5px" ><b> Search: <input type="text" name="term" style="border:1px dashed #216DAB"/></b></font>

    &nbsp;

    <input type="image" src="images/search1.png"  name="submit" value="Search" align="right"/>
    </form>
    <hr size="20" noshade="noshade" color="#216DAB">
    </div>
    </body>
</html>

<P><font face="Arial" Size="6px" color="black" ><b>List of files</b></font></p>
<P><center><table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" style="border:1px dotted black"><td><?=$thelist?></td></table></center></p>

However I get a PHP error when I load the php page.

Notice: Undefined variable: thelist in C:\xampp\htdocs\viewer\list.php on line 76

TryCatch part:

while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle)))
      {


          if ($file != "." && $file != "..")   {

          if ( ($file = @scandir('./pdf/') && (count($file) > 0) ) ) {

          $directory_not_empty = TRUE;
          } {
                throw new Exception('No files in database');
        } try {

            @$thelist .= '<font face="Calibri" size="4"><p><b><img src="images/document.png"> '.$file.'<br></b></p></a></font>';

            $query = "INSERT INTO files.files_tbl(Name) VALUES ('$file');";


            mysql_query($query) or die('Error, Insert query failed' . mysql_error());

          } catch (Exception $e) {
                die ($e->getMessage);


       }

       }

}

  closedir($handle);
  }
  • 1 1 Answer
  • 0 Views
  • 0 Followers
  • 0
Share
  • Facebook
  • Report

Leave an answer
Cancel reply

You must login to add an answer.

Forgot Password?

Need An Account, Sign Up Here

1 Answer

  • Voted
  • Oldest
  • Recent
  • Random
  1. Editorial Team
    Editorial Team
    2026-05-24T22:36:10+00:00Added an answer on May 24, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    The “$thelist” varibale is not defined

    <P><center><table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" style="border:1px dotted black"><td><?=$thelist?></td></table></center></p>
    

    Look there http://pastebin.com/jPdeieQV
    See line 13, 31 and 76

    • 0
    • Reply
    • Share
      Share
      • Share on Facebook
      • Share on Twitter
      • Share on LinkedIn
      • Share on WhatsApp
      • Report

Sidebar

Related Questions

I would like to catch all exceptions in a Rails 3 application. I tried
I'm familiar with some of the basics, but what I would like to know
i would like know some reference. I know i can googling it. but prefer
Would like to know what a programmer should know to become a good at
Would like to know the c# code to actually retrieve the IP type: Static
I would like to know if I can open 2 different diagrams using MS
I would like to know which dependency described in my pom.xml brings a transitive
I would like to know what semaphores, messageQueues, etc... are active in my vxWorks
I would like to know what kind of tool you use for writing your
I would like to know what's the best technique to do single sign-on in

Explore

  • Home
  • Add group
  • Groups page
  • Communities
  • Questions
    • New Questions
    • Trending Questions
    • Must read Questions
    • Hot Questions
  • Polls
  • Tags
  • Badges
  • Users
  • Help
  • SEARCH

Footer

© 2021 The Archive Base. All Rights Reserved
With Love by The Archive Base

Insert/edit link

Enter the destination URL

Or link to existing content

    No search term specified. Showing recent items. Search or use up and down arrow keys to select an item.