Continue and continue

The break and continue statements in PHP can be used to control the flow of a loop.

The break statement allows you to exit a loop prematurely, while the continue statement allows you to skip the rest of the current iteration and move on to the next one.

Here is an example of a for loop that uses the break statement to exit the loop when a certain condition is met:

for ($i = 1; $i <= 10; $i++) {
   if ($i == 5) {
       break;
   }
   echo "$i ";
}

In this example, the for loop will iterate 10 times, but the break statement will cause the loop to exit after the fifth iteration, so the numbers 1 through 4 will be printed.

Here is an example of a for loop that uses the continue statement to skip the rest of the current iteration and move on to the next one:

for ($i = 1; $i <= 10; $i++) {
   if ($i % 2 == 0) {
       continue;
   }
   echo "$i ";
}

In this example, the for loop will iterate 10 times, but the continue statement will cause the loop to skip the rest of the current iteration and move on to the next one if the value of $i is even. This means that only the odd numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 will be printed.

You can also use the break and continue statements in while, do...while, and foreach loops in a similar way.