Warning: “continue” targeting switch is equivalent to “break”. Did you mean to use “continue 2”? [closed]

Answer 1

I had to upgrade doctrine/orm:

composer update doctrine/orm

Updating doctrine/orm (v2.5.13 => v2.6.6)

Answer 2

If your code cannot be updated on some reason, just change your switch ... continue to switch ... break, as in previous versions of PHP it was meant to work this way.

Answer 3

Maybe your composer is outdated. Below are the steps to get rid of the error.

Note: For Windows professionals, Only Step2 and Step3 is needed and done.

Step1

Remove the composer:

sudo apt-get remove composer

Step2

Download the composer:

php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"

Step3

Run composer-setup.php file

php composer-setup.php

Step4

Finally move the composer:

sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer  

Your composer should be updated now. To check it run command:

composer

You can remove the downloaded composer by php command

php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"

Answer 4

The issue looks to me to be a backward incompatibility with PHP 7.3 for the continue keyword in Switch statements. Take a look at the "Continue Targeting Switch issues Warning" section in Backward Incompatible Changes.

I ran into the same issue with Symfony 3.3 using PHP 7.3 and downgrading to PHP 7.2 resolved the warning.

Answer 5

I changed continue to continue 2 on line 1579 in shortcodeComon.php and it fixed my problem

   if(trim($custom_link[$i]) == ""){

           continue;

    }

Change to:

  if(trim($custom_link[$i]) == ""){

             continue 2;

   }

Answer 6

Windows 10 Professional

PHP 7.3.1

I ran these commands to fix the problem on my desktop

php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
php composer-setup.php