PHP Break & Continue Statement

PHP Break Statement

PHP Break statement is used for stopping iteration of loops. PHP Break statements used with the following loops:

• While loop
• Do While loop
• For loop
• Foreach loop
• Switch Statement

Understand break statement from these examples :

Example 1:

<?php

$array_days = array("It's Sunday", "It's Monday", "It's Tuesday", "It's Wednesday", "It's Thursday", "It's Friday", "It's Saturday", );

foreach ($array_days as $day)
{
    if ($day== "It's Thursday")
    {	
       break;  
    }
    echo $day . "\n";
}

?>

Output:

Example 2

<?php

$m = 0;

while (++$m)
{
    switch ($m)
    {
        case 2:
	        echo "statement 5:\n";
	        break 1;
     
        case 4:
	        echo "statement 10:\n";
	        break 2;
    
        default:
        	echo "Error!\n";
        	break;
    }
    echo "\n";
}

?>

Output:

PHP Continue Statement

• This statement is used within looping structures to skip the rest of the current loop iteration.

• And This continues execution at the condition evaluation then the beginning of the next iteration.

Understand continue statement from this example :

<?php

for ($i = 0; $i < 5; $i++)
{
	if ($i == 2)
	    continue;
	
    echo $i . "\n";
}

?>

Output: