Laravel Error: Method Illuminate\View\View::__toString() must not throw an exception

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cbloss793 picture cbloss793 · Oct 23, 2014 · Viewed 49k times · Source

Have you seen this lovely error while working in Laravel? 

Method Illuminate\View\View::__toString() must not throw an exception

I have seen it and it's incredibly annoying. I have found out two reasons why this error gets thrown. I just want to help people not take hours and hours of time.

View answers & situations below. :)

Answer

Mārtiņš Briedis picture Mārtiņš Briedis · Mar 24, 2015

There is a very simple solution: don't cast View object to a string.

Don't: echo View::make('..'); or echo view('..');

Do: echo View::make('..')->render(); or echo view('..')->render();

For PHP version <7.4 By casting view, it uses __toString() method automatically, which cannot throw an exception. If you call render() manually, exceptions are handled normally. This is the case if there is an error in the view - laravel throws an exception.

It's fixed in PHP >=7.4 you should not encounter this issue: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/tostring_exceptions.

For PHP version <7.4: This actually is a PHP limitation, not Laravels. Read more about this "feature" here: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53648

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