[SOLVED] Break out of an if?

[Azu]

Hi, can somebody please tell me which command I should use to break out of an if(){blah blah}?

 

In a while(){blah blah} I would use "break;" but that doesn't seem to work in an if(){blah blah}.

 

I know that I could just put all of the rest of the if in {} and use if false so that it will only do the rest of the if if the condition isn't meant, but that is very sloppy and ugly and I really just want to know a function to just break out of the if(){} please..

[wildteen88]

You cant break out of an if. I don't understand what you mean. Post some code for an example of what you mean.

[.Stealth]

what do you need to break out of the if for?

[php_joe]

the conditions are all in the (). if you require a condition then it looks like this: if($var){blah, blah, blah}. if you require a condition but want to avoid it when another condition applies use if($var1 && !$var2){blah, blah, blah}

[Azu]

Because I have this big if(){} thing and half-way through it, if a certain condition is met/not met, then it should not run the rest of the if. I was just wandering if there is an elegant way to break out of it, instead of putting the whole rest of the if(){} inside of yet ANOTHER if(){}.. o_o

[per1os]

maybe try placing break; inside that if... or putting the if inside a function and just using return;

[Azu]

Oh right a function. Thanks ^^ that works great.

[corbin]

If you mean you want to do something like this (just an example):

 

$i = 0;
while($i < 10) {
if($i % 2 == 0) {
echo "even!";
}
else {
echo "odd";
}
}

 

You could also do it like....

$i = 0;
while($i < 10) {
if($i % 2 == 0) {
echo "even!";
continue;
}
echo "odd!";
}

[btherl]

There's a cute trick I've used to work around php's lack of goto:

 

while (an if condition) {
  blah
  blah
  if (some condition) {
    break; # goto end
  }
  blah
  if (some other condition) {
    break; # goto end
  }
  blah
  break; # finish while loop
} # This is "end"

 

Dijkstra is rolling in his grave I'm sure.. but seriously, a well considered use of goto can make code clearer.

 

Basically it's an "if" but I turned it into a "while", so I can break out of it.