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break ends execution of the current
for, foreach,
while, do-while or
switch structure.
break accepts an optional numeric argument
which tells it how many nested enclosing structures are to be
broken out of.
Gautam
22-Aug-2007 02:53
<?php
$to_square_root=65536;
$i=1;
$limit=4;
while (true) {
$square_root=sqrt($to_square_root);
echo "Square Root of $to_square_root is $square_root.<BR>";
$to_square_root=$square_root;
$i=$i+1;
if ($i>$limit) break;
}
$loop=$i-1;
echo "This loop is executes for $loop times.";
?>
pinkgothic at gmail dot com
22-Jun-2007 04:10
To add to the responses given to "vlad at vlad dot neosurge dot net" - I'd like to note the lack of automatic breaking in 'default' can be a very good thing. Consider this useful snippet:
<?php
switch((string) $_REQUEST['mode']) {
default:
$_REQUEST['mode'] = "search";
case 'search' :
case 'list' :
case 'add' :
case 'edit' :
require(dirname(__FILE__)."/incs/".$_REQUEST['mode'].".php");
break;
}
?>
I personally find that far easier to look at than, for example:
<?php
$valid_modes = array('search','list','add','edit');
if (in_array($_REQUEST['mode'],$valid_modes)) {
require(dirname(__FILE__)."/incs/".$_REQUEST['mode'].".php");
} else {
require(dirname(__FILE__)."/incs/search.php");
}
?>
...and it even has the added benefit that the switch() variant only has one require() statement, which makes for easier maintenance, e.g. if the directory changes, or what-have-you.
(Consider the above pseudocode, please, it's not tested - it's code illustrating a point only.)
vinyanov at poczta dot onet dot pl
05-May-2007 05:36
Note that the break argument accepts any expression, including a function result. So you may want to dynamically choose the loop level to break from:
<?php
function icarus()
{
while(print('sea level, '))
while(print('through the clouds, '))
while(print('close the Sun - '))
break rand(print('FEATHERS LOSS! - '), 3);
print('no feathers remaining.');
}
icarus();
?>
18-Jan-2007 06:12
If you wonder how to end execution of a function (as I did), it's that simple: return
function foo($a) {
if(!$a) return;
echo 'true';
// some other code
}
foo(true) will echo 'true', foo(false) won't echo anything (as return ends execution of the function. Of course, therefore there is no need for 'else' before 'echo').
clean_code at is_good_code dot com
08-Nov-2006 12:07
"Just an insignificant side not: Like in C/C++, it's not necessary to break out of the default part of a switch statement in PHP."
--Yes it is, it's just that traditionally default: is the last entry of a switch and so nothing happens after.
-If it was, for whatever reason, not the last entry the script would bawk, there is no implicit break; associated with switch.
traxer at gmx dot net
30-Dec-2005 06:53
vlad at vlad dot neosurge dot net wrote on 04-Jan-2003 04:21
> Just an insignificant side not: Like in C/C++, it's not
> necessary to break out of the default part of a switch
> statement in PHP.
It's not necessary to break out of any case of a switch statement in PHP, but if you want only one case to be executed, you have do break out of it (even out of the default case).
Consider this:
<?php
$a = 'Apple';
switch ($a) {
default:
echo '$a is not an orange<br>';
case 'Orange':
echo '$a is an orange';
}
?>
This prints (in PHP 5.0.4 on MS-Windows):
$a is not an orange
$a is an orange
Note that the PHP documentation does not state the default part must be the last case statement.
develop at jjkiers dot nl
13-Jul-2005 02:06
To php_manual at pfiff-media dot de:
This is only possible with PHP5, because <PHP5 doesn't have a proper exception infrastructure.
php_manual at pfiff-media dot de
13-Mar-2005 06:21
instead of using the while (1) loop with break like suggested in an earlier note, I would rather recommend throwing an exception, e.g.:
<?php
try {
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