Presenting the latest edition of The ZendCon Sessions. The podcast that rebroadcasts sessions/talks from the last ZendCon PHP Conference. This episode of The ZendCon Sessions was recorded live at ZendCon 2008 in Santa Clara, CA and features Eddo Rotman giving his talk: “Elegant Ways of Handling PHP Errors and Exceptions”

On her blog, Lorna Jane Mitchell has written an article discussing how best various APIs & Web Services might want to best return error codes to programmers, and discusses the frustrations that programmers can have dealing with Web Services that do not respond with descriptive, and complete, error codes.

p. PHP5 gave us many new features. Because of its big syntax changes however, a large percentage of the PHP developer base has not made the change. Over at vexxhost.com they have posted a blog entry on what they feel to be the top 5 features of PHP 5. Click on in and I’ll give you the scoop.

p. Alex Netkachev has posted an interesting little post over on his blog this morning. His topic? Convert notices and warnings into Exceptions. Come on inside, the show is just starting.

p. Most technical articles skimp on error handling. This is understandable since clauses that check for error conditions tend to obscure otherwise good, clean example code. This article goes to the other extreme. Here you will encounter plenty of error handling, and very little else.

p. Most technical articles skimp on error handling. This is understandable since clauses that check for error conditions tend to obscure otherwise good, clean example code. This article goes to the other extreme. Here you will encounter plenty of error handling, and very little else.

p. PHP 5 introduced exceptions, a new mechanism for handling errors in an object context. As you will see, exceptions provide some significant advantages over more traditional error management techniques.