<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >break</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.44"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="manual.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Control Structures" HREF="control-structures.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="foreach" HREF="control-structures.foreach.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="continue" HREF="control-structures.continue.html"></HEAD ><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="control-structures.foreach.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 11. Control Structures</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="control-structures.continue.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="control-structures.break" ><TT CLASS="literal" >break</TT ></A ></H1 ><P > <TT CLASS="literal" >break</TT > ends execution of the current <TT CLASS="literal" >if</TT >, <TT CLASS="literal" >for</TT >, <TT CLASS="literal" >while</TT >, or <TT CLASS="literal" >switch</TT > structure. </P ><P > <TT CLASS="literal" >break</TT > accepts an optional numeric argument which tells it how many nested enclosing structures are to be broken out of. </P ><P > <DIV CLASS="informalexample" ><P ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" > 1 2 $i = 0; 3 while ($i < 10) { 4 if ($arr[$i] == "stop") { 5 break; /* You could also write 'break 1;' here. */ 6 } 7 $i++; 8 } 9 10 /* Using the optional argument. */ 11 12 $i = 0; 13 while ( ++$i ) { 14 switch ( $i ) { 15 case 5: 16 echo "At 5<br>\n"; 17 break 1; /* Exit only the switch. */ 18 case 10: 19 echo "At 10; quitting<br>\n"; 20 break 2; /* Exit the switch and the while. */ 21 default: 22 break; 23 } 24 } 25 </PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P ></P ></DIV > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="control-structures.foreach.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="manual.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="control-structures.continue.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><TT CLASS="literal" >foreach</TT ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="control-structures.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><TT CLASS="literal" >continue</TT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >