PHP Try / Catch块暂停代码执行

Question

I'm running the following code:

    try {

        $count = $user[0]->followers_count;

    } catch (Exception $e) {

        return 'error';
    }

    dd('continuing execution');

Which outputs this:

FatalErrorException in Twitter.php line 174: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array

Now, a quote from https://stackoverflow.com/a/13955721/2724978

First of all one should make clear that an exception is only fatal if it is not caught. Catching an exception does not halt script execution.

My code is not continuing the execution even though it's on a try/catch block. I'm pretty sure I'm missing something, what is it?

Answer 1

Well, the answer I found is that in PHP, Errors and Exceptions are different things.. Exceptions can be caught and code will not halt. Errors such as FatalErrorException, on the other hand, will always halt the application even if it's in a try/catch block.

No way around it, have to write code for checking variable types.

Also, another thing.. Sometimes (in laravel for example) you gotta use \\Exception instead of just Exception.