Question

I’m using throw new Exception(...) to handle errors, but these errors are huge! With 7 stack traces I get a 5 line error.

Let’s say I call for a property that doesn’t exist. I want to simply display the property X doesn't exist message, and the location where it was called: in file.php, line Y

Is that possible?

Answer 1

I assume you simply want this for your own personal debugging. You could do a few things:

a) Learn how to read the exception errors

b) Create an exception handler and only output a few things:

set_exception_handler(function(Exception $e)
{
  echo $e->getMessage(); 
  // echo out whatever you want to see
  die();
});

Reference the docs to see what information is available.

c) Use an extension like xdebug that already provides a pretty exception handler