Utility for catching PHP errors, warnings and notices, then converting them (throwing) to an exception that can be caught at runtime @author Jason Hinkle - http://verysimple.com/2010/11/02/catching-php-errors-warnings-and-notices/ @copyright 1997-20

ExceptionThrower.php

<?php
/**
 * Utility for catching PHP errors and converting them to an exception
 * that can be caught at runtime
 * @author Jason Hinkle
 * @copyright  1997-2011 VerySimple, Inc.
 * @license    http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html  LGPL
 * @version 1.0
 */
class ExceptionThrower
{
 
	static $IGNORE_DEPRECATED = true;
 
	/**
	 * Start redirecting PHP errors
	 * @param int $level PHP Error level to catch (Default = E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED)
	 */
	static function Start($level = null)
	{
 
		if ($level == null)
		{
			if (defined("E_DEPRECATED"))
			{
				$level = E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED ;
			}
			else
			{
				// php 5.2 and earlier don't support E_DEPRECATED
				$level = E_ALL;
				self::$IGNORE_DEPRECATED = true;
			}
		}
		set_error_handler(array("ExceptionThrower", "HandleError"), $level);
	}
 
	/**
	 * Stop redirecting PHP errors
	 */
	static function Stop()
	{
		restore_error_handler();
	}
 
	/**
	 * Fired by the PHP error handler function.  Calling this function will
	 * always throw an exception unless error_reporting == 0.  If the
	 * PHP command is called with @ preceeding it, then it will be ignored
	 * here as well.
	 *
	 * @param string $code
	 * @param string $string
	 * @param string $file
	 * @param string $line
	 * @param string $context
	 */
	static function HandleError($code, $string, $file, $line, $context)
	{
		// ignore supressed errors
		if (error_reporting() == 0) return;
		if (self::$IGNORE_DEPRECATED && strpos($string,"deprecated") === true) return true;
 
		throw new Exception($string,$code);
	}
}