How does using try/catch affect the handling of errors in this situation?
When an error occurs in a PHP script, it can cause the script to stop executing and display an error message to the user. This can be disruptive to the user experience and may expose sensitive information. By using try/catch blocks, we can handle errors more gracefully by catching the error and executing code to handle it without halting the script.
try {
// code that may throw an error
} catch (Exception $e) {
// code to handle the error
echo "An error occurred: " . $e->getMessage();
}