Unable to catch PHPException with socket_connect within a Laravel controller - php

Question

I'm trying to ignore a PHP error via a try catch block but it doesn't seem to be working? I'm using it inside of of my controllers in Laravel.
try {
if (!self::isEmulatorOnline()) {
return;
}
$MUSdata = $command . chr(1) . $data;
$socket = \socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, getprotobyname('tcp'));
$connect_timeval = array(
"sec"=>0,
"usec" => 100
);
\socket_set_option(
$socket,
SOL_SOCKET,
SO_SNDTIMEO,
$connect_timeval
);
\socket_connect($socket, Config::get('frontend.client_host_ip'), Config::get('frontend.mus_host_port'));
\socket_send($socket, $MUSdata, strlen($MUSdata), MSG_DONTROUTE);
\socket_close($socket);
}
catch(\PHPException $exception) {}
As you can see I am trying to silent the error exception, I know it is advised not to but its via an ajax request where I handle if the client IP and port can't be accessed using a different method.
Does anyone know why its returning the error exception even when making it silent out using try catch?
The error I am getting is
1/1) ErrorException
socket_connect(): unable to connect [10061]: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
On this line:
\socket_connect($socket, Config::get('frontend.client_host_ip'), Config::get('frontend.mus_host_port'));

Answer 1

You're trying to catch the wrong exception. socket_connect() throws an ErrorException and not an PHPException. You can also specify just the Exception class to catch all unhandled exceptions.
You can also add multiple catch blocks if you want to catch multiple exception classes to handle them differently.
Example:
try {
//
} catch (ErrorException $ex) {
// here you go.
}

Answer 2

In laravel you can catch error like this.
Try logging this
try {
//
} catch (\Exception $e) {
// catch error message
Log::info($e->getMessage());
// get http error code
Log::info($e->getCode());
}