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<h1 class="refname">Error::__toString</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(No version information available, might only be in Git)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">Error::__toString</span> — <span class="dc-title">String representation of the error</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>Error::__toString</strong></span>
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Returns the <span class="type"><a href="language.types.string.html" class="type string">string</a></span> representation of the error.
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<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
<p class="para">This function has no parameters.</p>
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<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
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Returns the <span class="type"><a href="language.types.string.html" class="type string">string</a></span> representation of the error.
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<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
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<p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>Error::__toString()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
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<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /></span><span style="color: #007700">try {<br /> throw new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">Error</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Some error message"</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br />} catch(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Error $e</span><span style="color: #007700">) {<br /> echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$e</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br />}<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output
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Error: Some error message in /home/bjori/tmp/ex.php:3
Stack trace:
#0 {main}
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<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<li class="member"><span class="methodname"><a href="throwable.tostring.html" class="methodname" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">Throwable::__toString()</a> - Gets a string representation of the thrown object</span></li>
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