Remove stack trace from Exception message

[code green]

My code for formatting a caught Ecxeption into a string is

$this->message .= '<br>Exception thrown in '.
                '<br>File: '.basename($msg->getFile(),'.php').
                '<br>Line: '.$msg->getLine().
                '<br>Msge: '.$msg->getMessage().
                '<br>Code: '.$msg->getCode().
                '<br>------------------------------';

Which is fine, but the stack trace appears in the getMessage() return.
Good for debugging.
But I have remote servers sending emails with this message format containing full addresses of files in the stack trace which is a potential security breach.

How do I prevent getMessage() returning the stack trace.

[Dormilich]

@code green
that is strange, usually the stack trace has its own methods (getTrace(), getTraceAsStrin g()). unless you somehow insert the stack track with the throw (like adding debug_backtrace () or in the exception constructor).
And I’ve never seen that an exception auto-appended the stack trace (well, at least not with my exceptions…)

in the worst case you need to modify the message text via RegEx.

[code green]

Just to revive this dormant post.
It was only happening when an email failed so was rare.
But it seems to be my fault by doing this

catch(Exception $e){
throw new Exception($e);
}

which obviously places the whole Exception object into a new Exception object string.
So the stack trace and everything from the original $e is eventually output with the new Exception object with $e->getmessage() ;
Any advice on re-throwing Exceptions would be appreciated.
I have cleaned the problem with

catch(Exception $e)
{
    throw new Exception('<br>File: '.basename($e->getFile()).
    '<br>Line: '.$e->getLine().
    '<br>Msge: '.$e->getMessage().
    '<br>Code: '.$e->getCode());
}

Is this how is the Exception information usually passed back along the chain of functions?

[Dormilich]

if you re-throw a standard Exception, just make sure to pass the correct values.

catch (Exception $e)
{
    throw new Exception($e->getMessage());
}

otherwise you should define your own Exception classes (which is generally a good idea)

e.g.

class Exception2 extends Exception
{
  public function __construct($e)
  {
    if ($e instanceof Exception) parent::__construct($e->getMessage());
    elseif (is_string($e)) parent::__construct($e);
    else parent::__construct();
  }
}

another possibility would be setting the __toString() method of the Exception (though I didn’t try that for this scenario)