What's wrong with or throw new Exception?

Question

I'm using this code inside the public function __construct() of a class:

$this->mConnection = mysql_connect(BASE_DB_HOST,BASE_DB_USER,BASE_DB_PASS) or throw new Exception("Couldn't connect to database.");

BASE_DB_HOST, BASE_DB_USER and BASE_DB_PASS are defined. I get the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_THROW in /home/... on line 6

Am I not allowed to use the or construction with Exceptions? How can I workaround this?

Answer 1

Try using like this and let me know if its work for you or not-

<?php
function throwException() {
    throw new Exception("Couldn't connect to database.");
}

$this->mConnection = mysql_connect(BASE_DB_HOST,BASE_DB_USER,BASE_DB_PASS) OR throwException();
?>

Reference - http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.exceptions.php#81960