"Fatal error: Uncaught Error" in PHP — What It Means and How to Fix It

What the PHP error "Fatal error: Uncaught Error" means and how to fix it.

Published November 1, 2026

"Fatal error: Uncaught Error" a fatal, unrecoverable error that wasn't caught by any try/catch block.

Key points

  • As of PHP 7, many former fatal errors (like calling a method on a non-object) are thrown as an Error object, which can be caught with try/catch
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