In PHP, if you try to instantiate a new SoapClient
, and the WSDL is not accessible (server down or whatever), a PHP fatal error is thrown:
Fatal error: SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL:
Couldn't load from
'http://example.com/servlet/app/SomeService?wsdl'
: failed to load external entity
"http://example.com/servlet/app/SomeService?wsdl"
Fatal errors in PHP, as far as I know, are not recoverable.
Is there any way to fallback from this? Can this fatal error somehow be avoided?
Edit: I should say that I am running on PHP 5.2, if it makes any difference.
This has already been discussed :
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=47584
- http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.soapclient.php#104046
Rasmus himself proposed the following solution:
<?php
try {
$x = @new SoapClient("non-existent.wsdl",array("exceptions" => 1));
} catch (SoapFault $E) {
echo $E->faultstring;
}
echo "ok\n";
See this topic How do I catch a PHP Fatal Error
Basically you cant recover from a fatal error but you can provide a better experience to the user when registering a shutdown function
register_shutdown_function('handleShutdown');
function handleShutdown(){
$error = error_get_last();
if($error !== NULL){
echo "Sorry for the inconvenience, an error just occurred.";
}
}