Is it best practice to try - catch my entire PHP code, or be as specific as possible?

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Published on 2010-05-14T01:09:19Z Indexed on 2010/05/14 1:14 UTC
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I do not have many kinds of Exceptions in my project.
Right now,(we use MVC) I have the try catch encompassing my entire code:

try{
   fronController::dispatch($somthing...);
}catch(Exception $E){
  //handle errors
}

I wonder if there is a good reason to use the try-catch block in as specific as possible way as I can or just keep it general as it is now?

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