php: try-catch not catching all exceptions

Question

I'm trying to do the following:

try {     // just an example     $time      = 'wrong datatype';     $timestamp = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $time); } catch (Exception $e) {     return false; } // database activity here 

In short: I initialize some variables to be put in the database. If the initialization fails for whatever reason - e.g. because $time is not the expected format - I want the method to return false and not input wrong data into the database.

However, errors like this are not caught by the 'catch'-statement, but by the global error handler. And then the script continues.

Is there a way around this? I just thought it would be cleaner to do it like this instead of manually typechecking every variable, which seems ineffective considering that in 99% of all cases nothing bad happens.

Answer 1

try {   // call a success/error/progress handler } catch (\Throwable $e) { // For PHP 7   // handle $e } catch (\Exception $e) { // For PHP 5   // handle $e }