Unable to catch error in laravel using try catch - laravel

Question

I wrote a code to try and catch error.
I want that if the error occurs then laravel continues to the next one and i write the error in the error file as shown here.
Laravel's black page of error pops up which shows "ErrorException (E_WARNING) followed by the whole error on the left page and the programme is abruptly stopped.
Is there a way to skip the error notification which brings my whole code to a stop.
My attempt at coding to catch the error is here:
try {
$jsondata_car = (file_get_contents($urltofind_car));
} catch (Exception $e) {
$errorfile = fopen("errors", 'a');
fwrite($errorfile, $e - > getmessage().
"\n");
$failed_car = 9999999;
report($e);
return false;
}
Am I missing out something?
The error I get is here
file_get_contents(): failed to open stream:
HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
The error is shown on the line
$jsondata_car = (file_get_contents($urltofind_car));
The solution is here
Exception is used which should have contained a namespace.
The problem is that this does not throw up an error even though I had not written
Use Exception;
at the beginning.
As suggested by #simon R I made the rectification and it worked.

Answer 1

It is most likely still throwing the error because you haven't imported the Exception class
Ensure you either add
Use Exception;
to your class.
Alternative update your code to namespace it;
try {
$jsondata_car = (file_get_contents($urltofind_car));
} catch (\Exception $e) {
$errorfile = fopen("errors", 'a');
fwrite($errorfile, $e - > getmessage().
"\n");
$failed_car = 9999999;
report($e);
return false;
}