Catching Reflection Exception When Parent Class Not Found

Question

Scenario: I have a class that extends another class, yet the parent class is undefined (for whatever reason). I am trying to get a ReflectionClass of the child class. When I do this, I get a Class Not Found exception on the parent class. However, I cannot catch this exception. What am I doing wrong?

For example...

<?php
class Foo extends Bar { }

try
{
    $class = new ReflectionClass('Foo');
    echo 'I\'ve reflected "Foo" successfully!';
}
catch (Exception $e)
{
    echo 'My exception handler';
}

The result of the above code is a printout of the class 'Bar' not found exception. Why is my catch statement not picking up the exception?

thanks, Kyle

Answer 1

That's because the exception occurred on this line and not on the lines after try:

class Foo extends Bar { }

I tried it, putting the class declaration on a try-catch won't work too. Make sure Bar is included first.