frank,

Your exception handler is configured to be the handler for all exceptions, yet if a basic 'Exception' is thrown, your static method will error because 'Exception's do not have 'getException'.  Because of this I don't see a real purpose to making the uncaught handler a class that extends Exception.  

I do like the idea of using static methods of a general Exception handling class.  

<?php
class ExceptionHandler {   
    public static function printException(Exception $e)
    {
        print 'Uncaught '.get_class($e).', code: ' . $e->getCode() . "<br />Message: " . htmlentities($e->getMessage())."\n";
    }
   
    public static function handleException(Exception $e)
    {
         self::printException($e);
    }
}

set_exception_handler(array("ExceptionHandler", "handleException"));

class NewException extends Exception {}
try {
  throw new NewException("Catch me once", 1);
} catch (Exception $e) {
  ExceptionHandler::handleException($e);
}

throw new Exception("Catch me twice", 2);
?>

Gives:
Uncaught NewException, code: 1<br />Message: Catch me once
Uncaught Exception, code: 2<br />Message: Catch me twice

There are much more interesting things that can be done like reformating and optionally displaying or emailing them.  But this class acts a nice container for those functions.