Continuing Loops in PHP: Techniques and Best Practices

While you can break out of a loop completely with the break keyword, there is another keyword used when working with loops - the continue keyword. Using the continue keyword in a loop will stop the loop at some point and continue with the next iteration of the loop from the beginning of it.

Syntax:

<?php
for($a = 0; $a < 10; $a++){

if($a == 5){
continue;
}

print $a . "<br />";
}
?>

In the above example, the for loop is set to iterate 9 times and print the current value of the variable a during each iteration. The if statement within the loop states that when the variable a is equal to 5, stop the loop and continue with the next iteration of the loop from the beginning of it. For this reason, all the numbers except the number 5 are printed.

Output:

This will produce the following result

0
1
2
3
4
6
7
8
9