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Exception::__toString

(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

Exception::__toString — String representation of the exception

public Exception::__toString ( ) : string

Returns the string representation of the exception.

This function has no parameters.

Returns the string representation of the exception.

Example #1 Exception::__toString() example

<?php
try {
    throw new Exception("Some error message");
} catch(Exception $e) {
    echo $e;
}
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

exception 'Exception' with message 'Some error message' in /home/bjori/tmp/ex.php:3
Stack trace:
#0 {main}