PHP and dealing with a fatal error

[michellez]

Hi guys,

I have a script that uses Pear's Net DNS to look up A records and MX records.

At one point I get a "Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 5 seconds exceeded in D:\xampp\php\PEAR\Net\DNS\Resolver.php on line 996" as it timesout because the DNS server doesn't respond to that DNS request and just takes for ever to timeout (this DNS server's way of handling access denied). I have the execution time set to 5 secs to purely make my testing quicker.

Does anyone know how I get rid of this error and show something more friendly? Googling but not sussing it out.

Example of one of my querys:

$resultC = $resolverC->query($domain,'mx');

Thanks,
Shell

 

[dave-lew99]

Try wrapping it into a Try/Catch statement, see here

http://uk3.php.net/exceptions

 

[michellez]

Thanks dave-lew99.

I tried that and it doesn't work with fatal errors. Best read I found on this is http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=40014 which basically answers my question originally... No, you can't deal with Fatal Errors. End of

Meh.