Can you 'exit' a loop in PHP?
As stated in other posts, you can use the break keyword. One thing that was hinted at but not explained is that the keyword can take a numeric value to tell PHP how many levels to break from.
For example, if you have three foreach loops nested in each other trying to find a piece of information, you could do 'break 3' to get out of all three nested loops. This will work for the 'for', 'foreach', 'while', 'do-while', or 'switch' structures.
$person = "Rasmus Lerdorf";
$found = false;
foreach($organization as $oKey=>$department)
{
foreach($department as $dKey=>$group)
{
foreach($group as $gKey=>$employee)
{
if ($employee['fullname'] == $person)
{
$found = true;
break 3;
}
} // group
} // department
} // organization
You are looking for the break statement.
$arr = array('one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'stop', 'five');
while (list(, $val) = each($arr)) {
if ($val == 'stop') {
break; /* You could also write 'break 1;' here. */
}
echo "$val<br />\n";
}
break;
leaves your loop.
continue;
skips any code for the remainder of that loop and goes on to the next loop, so long as the condition is still true.