需要my_require_once吗？

Question

Is it a good idea to use some 'my_require_once' function instead of standard require_once to check if the required file exists and handle the case if not (for example, display some special error page instead of FATAL_Error message displaying the structure of your application (path, filenames etc.) or is it just useless? If second, then, what is a better practice to include files?

Update:

I dont want to disable all error messages, though, while I'm not very experienced in PHP and I'm afraid it can hide some bugs from me for quite a long time.

Thanks

Answer 1

I think the difference between the require_once() and include_once() functions is that the require_once() causes PHP to deliver a fatal error and script execution stops. So if you want to keep executing then use include_once() and simply use it in an if statement to see if your file was included and then handle the errors as necessary.

EDIT

If you would like to suppress an error message in PHP you can use the @ symbol.

if(!@include_once("somefile.txt")) {
    print("File could not be found...");
}