Try-Catching Exceptions and PHP Errors

Exceptions are the mechanism to catch some invalid behavior and gracefully handle them instead of just showing "500 server error" to the users.

Take a look at this example:

public function __invoke()
{
    $data = [['name' => 'John Doe', 'email' => '[email protected]', 'date' => '23-04']];
 
    try {
        $this->import($data);
    } catch (ImportHasMalformedData $e) { 
        return redirect()->route('dashboard')->with('message', 'Uh oh, the import has failed. Try again later or contact support');
    }
 
    return 'Imported';
}

This snippet means that in case of ANY Exception, the user would get redirected back and see the error message.

But what if we're expecting something specific to happen?

Catching a Specific Laravel Exception

Try-catch is way more helpful when catching a specific Exception. Laravel and 3rd party packages often offer...