(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
L'instruction continue est utilisée
dans une boucle afin d'éluder les instructions de
l'itération courante et de continuer l'exécution à la condition de
l'évaluation et donc, de commencer la prochaine itération.
Note:
En PHP, la structure
switchest considérée comme une boucle parcontinue.continuese comporte commebreak(lorsqu'aucun argument n'est passé) mais émettra un avertissement, car il est probable que ceci soit une erreur. Si unswitchse trouve à l'intérieur d'une boucle,continue 2va continuer sur la prochaine itération de la boucle externe.
continue accepte un argument numérique
optionnel qui indique combien de structures
emboîtées doivent être éludées. La valeur par défaut
est 1, ce qui revient à aller directement
à la fin de la boucle courante.
<?php
$arr = ['zero', 'one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'five', 'six'];
foreach ($arr as $key => $value) {
if (0 === ($key % 2)) { // ignore les membres à clé paire
continue;
}
echo $value . "\n";
}Les exemples ci-dessus vont afficher :
one three five
<?php
$i = 0;
while ($i++ < 5) {
echo "Extérieur\n";
while (1) {
echo "Milieu\n";
while (1) {
echo "Intérieur\n";
continue 3;
}
echo "Ceci n'est jamais affiché.\n";
}
echo "Ceci non plus.\n";
}Les exemples ci-dessus vont afficher :
Extérieur Milieu Intérieur Extérieur Milieu Intérieur Extérieur Milieu Intérieur Extérieur Milieu Intérieur Extérieur Milieu Intérieur
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 7.3.0 |
continue à l'intérieur d'un switch
qui tente d'agir comme une déclaration break pour
switch émettra E_WARNING .
|
The remark "in PHP the switch statement is considered a looping structure for the purposes of continue" near the top of this page threw me off, so I experimented a little using the following code to figure out what the exact semantics of continue inside a switch is:
<?php
for( $i = 0; $i < 3; ++ $i )
{
echo ' [', $i, '] ';
switch( $i )
{
case 0: echo 'zero'; break;
case 1: echo 'one' ; XXXX;
case 2: echo 'two' ; break;
}
echo ' <' , $i, '> ';
}
?>
For XXXX I filled in
- continue 1
- continue 2
- break 1
- break 2
and observed the different results. This made me come up with the following one-liner that describes the difference between break and continue:
continue resumes execution just before the closing curly bracket ( } ), and break resumes execution just after the closing curly bracket.
Corollary: since a switch is not (really) a looping structure, resuming execution just before a switch's closing curly bracket has the same effect as using a break statement. In the case of (for, while, do-while) loops, resuming execution just prior their closing curly brackets means that a new iteration is started --which is of course very unlike the behavior of a break statement.
In the one-liner above I ignored the existence of parameters to break/continue, but the one-liner is also valid when parameters are supplied.Using continue and break:
<?php
$stack = array('first', 'second', 'third', 'fourth', 'fifth');
foreach($stack AS $v){
if($v == 'second')continue;
if($v == 'fourth')break;
echo $v.'<br>';
}
/*
first
third
*/
$stack2 = array('one'=>'first', 'two'=>'second', 'three'=>'third', 'four'=>'fourth', 'five'=>'fifth');
foreach($stack2 AS $k=>$v){
if($v == 'second')continue;
if($k == 'three')continue;
if($v == 'fifth')break;
echo $k.' ::: '.$v.'<br>';
}
/*
one ::: first
four ::: fourth
*/
?>If you use a incrementing value in your loop, be sure to increment it before calling continue; or you might get an infinite loop.The most basic example that print "13", skipping over 2.
<?php
$arr = array(1, 2, 3);
foreach($arr as $number) {
if($number == 2) {
continue;
}
print $number;
}
?>In the same way that one can append a number to the end of a break statement to indicate the "loop" level upon which one wishes to 'break' , one can append a number to the end of a 'continue' statement to acheive the same goal. Here's a quick example:
<?
for ($i = 0;$i<3;$i++) {
echo "Start Of I loop\n";
for ($j=0;;$j++) {
if ($j >= 2) continue 2; // This "continue" applies to the "$i" loop
echo "I : $i J : $j"."\n";
}
echo "End\n";
}
?>
The output here is:
Start Of I loop
I : 0 J : 0
I : 0 J : 1
Start Of I loop
I : 1 J : 0
I : 1 J : 1
Start Of I loop
I : 2 J : 0
I : 2 J : 1
For more information, see the php manual's entry for the 'break' statement.For clarification, here are some examples of continue used in a while/do-while loop, showing that it has no effect on the conditional evaluation element.
<?php
// Outputs "1 ".
$i = 0;
while ($i == 0) {
$i++;
echo "$i ";
if ($i == 1) continue;
}
// Outputs "1 2 ".
$i = 0;
do {
$i++;
echo "$i ";
if ($i == 2) continue;
} while ($i == 1);
?>
Both code snippets would behave exactly the same without continue.a possible explanation for the behavior of continue in included scripts mentioned by greg and dedlfix above may be the following line of the "return" documentation: "If the current script file was include()ed or require()ed, then control is passed back to the calling file."
The example of greg produces an error since page2.php does not contain any loop-operations.
So the only way to give the control back to the loop-operation in page1.php would be a return.