Modern PHP 8.x & Internals
5-8 Years (Senior)
Medium
Production Scenario
How do you handle Unhandled Exceptions and Fatal Errors gracefully in PHP 8 with custom error handlers?
Real-World Scenario / Incident Description
Ensuring any unhandled fatal exception renders a clean JSON payload to API clients and reports stack traces to Sentry without printing raw PHP traces.
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Handling \Throwable (Exception + Error)
In PHP 7+, all exceptions and fatal runtime errors implement \Throwable:
set_exception_handler(function (\Throwable $e) {
Log::error($e->getMessage(), ['trace' => $e->getTraceAsString()]);
http_response_code(500);
header('Content-Type: application/json');
echo json_encode([
'error' => 'Internal Server Error',
'code' => 500,
]);
exit;
});
Related Concepts:
#Error Handling
#Exceptions
#Throwable
#Sentry
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