Labels in PHP

[FIONEX]

Hey, I was wondering if PHP supports labels, but I doubt they're called labels because I've searched and couldn't find anything.

Labels in VB or other languages for that matter look like this:

RepeatCode:
'CODE GOES HERE
If A > B Then GoTo RepeatCode

Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
If you do, is this possible in PHP kuz I'm in need of them.

[.josh]

no. and you don't need them, either. if you post your current code and what you are trying to do, then we can show you how to do it.

edit: mostly what replaces any kind of useful feature of labels is functions and objects.

[kenrbnsn]

The way to do this type of coding
[code]
RepeatCode:
'CODE GOES HERE
If A > B Then GoTo RepeatCode
[/code]
without using a goto, would be with a "while" loop:
[code]<?php
while ($a > $b) {
//
//   code goes here
//
}
?>[/code]

Ken

[Barand]

I haven't used a goto statement since I first learnt Basic over 20 years ago, nor would I want to.
[code]
do {
    CODE
} while (A > B)[/code]

[Fyorl]

It's only really needed for linear code. If you do a few tutorials on this site you'll see that even linear code isn't actually linear.

[Barand]

[!--quoteo(post=382042:date=Jun 9 2006, 09:32 PM:name=Fyorl)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(Fyorl @ Jun 9 2006, 09:32 PM) [snapback]382042[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]
It's only really needed for linear code. If you do a few tutorials on this site you'll see that even linear code isn't actually linear.
[/quote]

It isn't *needed* at all. Plus I've seen it abused too many times, even in commercial packages.

Such as

- leaping out of for() loops to some other part of the program

- and even

[code]statement1
statement2
goto LABEL
function x()
     thought I'd define a function now
end function
LABEL:
Statement3[/code]