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Not so sure why you would need to do this, but I would venture to say that there is no need for this type of usage. &nbsp;An IF statement is intended to be true or false. &nbsp;I believe you should re-evaluate the way the code is written if you think you need to use a BREAK within an IF statement.<br />
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if your intentions are to stop the script entirely,I would use EXIT() from within this IF statement. &nbsp;This is acceptable.<br />
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If I am off base here, someone let me know.
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Not so sure why you would need to do this, but I would venture to say that there is no need for this type of usage.  An IF statement is intended to be true or false.  I believe you should re-evaluate the way the code is written if you think you need to use a BREAK within an IF statement.

if your intentions are to stop the script entirely,I would use EXIT() from within this IF statement.  This is acceptable.

If I am off base here, someone let me know.

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if ($something) {<br />
do this.<br />
exit; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;--- this is what you want<br />
}<br />
that will exit the entire script.
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if ($something) {
do this.
exit;     <--- this is what you want
}
that will exit the entire script.

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Break is used in loops and switches, not conditional statements. Doing so results in a fatal error.
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Break is used in loops and switches, not conditional statements. Doing so results in a fatal error.

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I know you can use break statements with switch statements, however is it acceptable to use break statements within if statements ?<br />
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Many thanks.
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I know you can use break statements with switch statements, however is it acceptable to use break statements within if statements ?

Many thanks.

Using break within a if statement ?

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