Break and Continue in

About Break and Continue

When using a looping or iterating control structure, the break and continue keywords can assist to control the flow of a program. The break keyword breaks out of the loop context into the outer scope, thus terminating the loop. The continue keyword skips the remainder of the current iteration and restarts the loop context at the beginning of the next iteration. While uncommon, a number may be supplied with the keyword to control how many contexts to either break out of or skip to the next iteration.

<?php
$i = 1;
while ($i <= 10) {

    if ($i <= 5) {
        i += 1;
        continue;
    }
    break;
}

In the previous example, continue is executed five (5) times, but on the sixth (6) iteration break is executed, causing the code to exit the loop.