Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to deal with PHP errors and how to work with exceptions. Now, you also understand the difference between traditional errors and exceptions and their use cases. You learned how to set error and exception handlers. Now, you understand the different error levels in PHP, and why some will curtail the execution of the script, while most of them will allow the script to execute further. Also, to avoid code duplication, you learned how to translate traditional errors to exceptions and forward them to the exception handler.

Finally, my advice to you is to consider setting up a logging server (some free solutions are available for download and use), where you can send all the logs, so that, when you access the logging platform, you can filter the entries (for example, by severity/log level or by a search term), create data visualizations with various aggregations (for example, counts of warnings in the last 12 hours at 30-minute intervals), and more...