Throwing an error with die and stopping the web experience completely is not a very good solution because the error that will be displayed is probably meaningless to the end user.

Not only that, but I have seen websites where some error in the php code caused not only a cryptic error message to show up but a full dump with the section of source code where the error occurred. I was looking at the source code, and I thought this could be a potential security issue. You don't want your buggy code exposed to hackers. Lol

2023-02-17: Update: Excuse me, did I say something wrong? Why did you give me -2 point for this comment? Anybody wants to explain this?

2023-02-17: Update removed.

2023-02-17: Update reinserted.

2023-02-17: The words "update" were added. lol :D

In reply to Re: Error handling in a module by harangzsolt33
in thread Error handling in a module by Bod

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