Continue a script after an exception is thrown PHP

Question

I'm using the PDFParser and encountering a thrown exception that breaks my script even if I put it in a try/catch block like below. Meaning, the exception gets echoed but the "Caught exception: " part does not. I thought this was exactly what try/catch was for?

    try {
        $text = $pdf->getText();
    } 
    catch (Exception $e) {
        echo 'Caught exception: ',  $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    }

The github issue comments don't address this issue so I thought SO could help.

Answer 1

I was also facing the same problem of missing catalog fatal error.

I have tried try, throw and catch and now i am not getting any missing catalog fatal error. Below is the code where i have applied try, throw and catch:

public function getPages()
      {
 try{   
      if (isset($this->dictionary['Catalog'])) {
      // Search for catalog to list pages.
      $id = reset($this->dictionary['Catalog']);

    /** @var Pages $object */
    $object = $this->objects[$id]->get('Pages');
    if (method_exists($object, 'getPages')) {
        $pages = $object->getPages(true);
        return $pages;
    }
}

if (isset($this->dictionary['Pages'])) {
    // Search for pages to list kids.
    $pages = array();

    /** @var Pages[] $objects */
    $objects = $this->getObjectsByType('Pages');
    foreach ($objects as $object) {
        $pages = array_merge($pages, $object->getPages(true));
    }

    return $pages;
}

if (isset($this->dictionary['Page'])) {
    // Search for 'page' (unordered pages).
    $pages = $this->getObjectsByType('Page');

    return array_values($pages);
}

throw new \Exception('Missing catalog.');
}
catch(\Exception $e)
{
$pages = '0';
}
}

Best of luck!!