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JError is inspired in design and concept by patErrorManager [1]. It is Joomla's Error Handling Class and should be used by third party developers to handle errors.

Defined in

libraries/joomla/error/error.php

Methods

Method name	Description
isError	Method to determine if a value is an exception object. This check supports both JException and PHP5 Exception objects
getError	Method for retrieving the last exception object in the error stack
getErrors	Method for retrieving the exception stack
addToStack	Method to add non-JError thrown JExceptions to the JError stack for debugging purposes
raise	Create a new JException object given the passed arguments
throwError
raiseError	Wrapper method for the raise() method with predefined error level of E_ERROR and backtrace set to true.
raiseWarning	Wrapper method for the raise() method with predefined error level of E_WARNING and backtrace set to false.
raiseNotice	Wrapper method for the raise() method with predefined error level of E_NOTICE and backtrace set to false.
getErrorHandling	Method to get the current error handler settings for a specified error level.
setErrorHandling	Method to set the way the JError will handle different error levels. Use this if you want to override the default settings.
attachHandler	Method that attaches the error handler to JError
detachHandler	Method that dettaches the error handler from JError
registerErrorLevel	Method to register a new error level for handling errors
translateErrorLevel	Translate an error level integer to a human readable string e.g. E_ERROR will be translated to 'Error'
handleIgnore	Ignore error handler Ignores the error
handleEcho	Echo error handler Echos the error message to output
handleVerbose	Verbose error handler Echos the error message to output as well as related info
handleDie	Die error handler Echos the error message to output and then dies
handleMessage	Message error handler Enqueues the error message into the system queue
handleLog	Log error handler Logs the error message to a system log file
handleCallback	Callback error handler Send the error object to a callback method for error handling
customErrorPage	Display a custom error page and exit gracefully
customErrorHandler
renderBacktrace

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.error.error' );