Preventing a warning message from showing

[galvin]

I hope this is enough info, but I have this code (at the bottom) that grabs images from my S3 account (Amazon Web Services)... If there is no bucket for the name given, it gives this warning...

 

Warning: S3::getBucket(): [NoSuchBucket] The specified bucket does not exist in /home/xxxxxxx/public_html/xxxxxxx.com/S3.php on line 126

 

Assuming it's not specific syntax to S3 and is general PHP syntax, how could I prevent that warning from showing, by saying in plain English "If a bucket by that name doesn't exist, I'm gonna do something else and NOT spit out this warning?"

 

Basically, I want to echo a message like "There is no bucket yet" instead of having that ugly warning.

 

 

// Get the contents of our bucket
$contents = $s3->getBucket("mybucket");
foreach ($contents as $file){

	$fname = $file['name'];
	$furl = "http://mybucket.s3.amazonaws.com/".$fname;

	//output a link to the file
	echo "<a href=\"$furl\">$fname</a><br />";
	echo "<img src='$furl' width='50' /><br />";
	echo "$furl<br />";

}

[trq]

Generally functions or methods should return either true or false depending on wether or not they fail or succeed. This makes them easy to handle using logic like:

 

if ($contents = $s3->getBucket("mybucket")) {
  foreach ($contents as $file) {
    // rst of code
  }
}

 

Clearly, whatever $s3 is pretty poorly written as it appears to be triggering a warning. I would investigate the getBucket() method itself and have it either return true or false, or if really necessary an exception. At least they are easy to handle.

[galvin]

Ok will do, thanks Thorpe!