Let's play catch!

Yesterday, I had a chance to play a bit with exceptions. I have used them before in java but never in php. While I only have the basics in my code now, I am excited about their potential. In the past, when I wrote a method, I would just return false on any type of error. The method did contain error checking but ultimately would just send back false to let the calling code know there was a problem. This works ok but causes the calling code to handle some level of error checking and doesn't really allow the caller to know what is going on......sort of like going to the doctor and simply hearing..."Yep, there's a problem" and then having him walk out the door. I am hoping that exceptions will allow me to better control the error checking and keep it closer to the methods causing the trouble....then again I have onlly begun to play and may hate exceptions tomorrow.

Now to go play catch with my code.