The PHP break statement
A break statement is an intentional interruption that prevents the loop from running. Sometimes a situation arises that makes us want to exit from a loop immediately without waiting to get back to the conditional statement.
The keyword break ends execution of the current for, foreach, while, or do while loops.
When the keyword
breakis executed inside a loop, the control is automatically passed on to the first statement outside of the loop.
A
breakis usually associated with theifstatement.
Code
In the following example, we test the value of ＄sum; if it becomes greater than 1300, the break statement terminates the execution of the code. As the echo statement is the first statement outside of the loop, it will print the current value of ＄sum.
Take a look at the code below:
<?php$array1=array(100, 1100, 200, 400, 900);$x1=0;$sum=0;while ($x1<=4){if ($sum>1300){break;}$sum = $sum+$array1[$x1];$x1=$x1+1;}echo $sum;echo "\n";echo "The loop ran ", $x1, " times";?>
After adding the first three values the
sumbecame 1400, thebreakstatement was executed, and the loop was terminated. This is why the loop only ran three times.
