I am trying to upload a file. And if it throws an exception I don't want to see the "whoops" page. Instead it will go back the previous page with a message. This is what I tried,
try {
$data = Excel::toArray(new Import, request('file'));
} catch (\Exception $e) {
return back()->withErrors("an exception occured");
}
But it still gives me the whoops page whenever any exception occurs.
This is the exception I am getting(for testing I purposefully limited the memory size)
Symfony \ Component \ Debug \ Exception \ FatalErrorException (E_UNKNOWN)
Allowed memory size of 62914560 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 14680064 bytes)
How to solve it?
You probably get a 500 server error and therefore you always get the whoop page.
Looking at your code I can only see one mistake. The second argument of the toArray method should be a file, but it's now a string.
Try this instead
$data = Excel::toArray(new Import, request()->file('file'));
You can find the errors in the storage/logs directory. So if you get a whoops, you can see what error the code gives you ;)
Memory issues are particularly hard to catch because PHP has no memory left to handle the exception process.
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