Why does 'Cannot break/continue 1 level' comes in PHP?

Question

I am getting sometimes this error on production at:

if( true == $objWebsite ) {
    $arrobjProperties = (array) $objWebsite->fetchProperties( );
    if( false         


        

Answer 1

You can't "break" from an if statement. You can only break from a loop.

If you want to use it to break from a loop in a calling function, you need to handle this by return value - or throw an exception.

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Return value method:

while (MyLoop) {
   $strSecureBaseName = mySubFunction();
   if ($strSecureBaseName === false) {   // Note the triple equals sign.
        break;
   }
   // Use $strSecureBaseName;
}

// Function mySubFunction() returns the name, or false if not found.

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Using exceptions - beautiful example here: http://php.net/manual/en/language.exceptions.php

getMessage(), "\n";
}

// Continue execution
echo 'Hello World';
?>