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What you must know about PHP errors to avoid scratching your forehead when something goes wrong

While pure object-oriented languages produce mainly exceptions to signal an error, PHP started out as procedural and so it has a wide range of errors that can be raised along with exceptions.

Errors are Human, But We Must Identify Them

There isn’t a programmer alive who hasn’t made errors when coding something at some point in their career. It is simply a part of the process, and it is important to recognize that we will all make these types of mistakes from time to time. That said, it is best to identify the errors as they occur so as to correct them at the moment. 

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Why You Should Avoid Using Exceptions as the Control Flow in Java

Learn more about using exceptions as control flow in Java.

Java is a general-purpose programming language with many alternatives to solving a certain problem. However, there are best practices that need to be followed, and there are some bad practices out there as well that are still commonly used.

One of these common bad practices is using exceptions as the control flow. This should be avoided for two reasons: It reduces the performance of your code as a response per unit time, and it makes your code less readable.