> > Moreover, I'd rather we get rid of the warning modes all together as they > make the least sense to me. > Either you're handling the failures explicitly anyway and you use the > silent mode, or you don't and want it to throw with the exception mode. > The warning mode is literally the worst of both worlds, it doesn't fail on > failure so you need to check for failure manually, > and you need to suppress the warnings because otherwise you get false > negatives. > > Best regards, > > George P. Banyard >
I'd just like to say amen to that. Please move as much code as possible to throwing exceptions, and get rid of warnings. Most of the time when a warning is thrown in PHP, what you actually want is to deal with it, or stop execution. - Benjamin
