include_once
Remember if you are not a fan of wild labels hanging around you are free to use braces in this construct creating a slightly cleaner look. Labels also are always executed and do not need to be called to have their associated code block ran. A purposeless example is below.
<?php
$headers = Array('subject', 'bcc', 'to', 'cc', 'date', 'sender');
$position = 0;
hIterator: {
$c = 0;
echo $headers[$position] . PHP_EOL;
cIterator: {
echo ' ' . $headers[$position][$c] . PHP_EOL;
if(!isset($headers[$position][++$c])) {
goto cIteratorExit;
}
goto cIterator;
}
cIteratorExit: {
if(isset($headers[++$position])) {
goto hIterator;
}
}
}
?>
goto
(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0)
The goto operator can be used to jump to another section in the program. The target point is specified by a label followed by a colon, and the instruction is given as goto followed by the desired target label. This is not a full unrestricted goto. The target label must be within the same file and context, meaning that you cannot jump out of a function or method, nor can you jump into one. You also cannot jump into any sort of loop or switch structure. You may jump out of these, and a common use is to use a goto in place of a multi-level break.
Example #1 goto example
<?php
goto a;
echo 'Foo';
a:
echo 'Bar';
?>
The above example will output:
Bar
Example #2 goto loop example
<?php
for($i=0,$j=50; $i<100; $i++) {
while($j--) {
if($j==17) goto end;
}
}
echo "i = $i";
end:
echo 'j hit 17';
?>
The above example will output:
j hit 17
Example #3 This will not work
<?php
goto loop;
for($i=0,$j=50; $i<100; $i++) {
while($j--) {
loop:
}
}
echo "$i = $i";
?>
The above example will output:
Fatal error: 'goto' into loop or switch statement is disallowed in script on line 2
Note:
The goto operator is available as of PHP 5.3.
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User Contributed Notes
goto - [6 notes]
chrisstocktonaz at gmail dot com ¶
3 years ago
sixoclockish at gmail dot com ¶
10 months ago
You are also allowed to jump backwards with a goto statement. To run a block of goto as one block is as follows:
example has a prefix of iw_ to keep label groups structured and an extra underscore to do a backwards goto.
Note the `iw_end_gt` to get out of the labels area
<?php
$link = true;
if ( $link ) goto iw_link_begin;
if(false) iw__link_begin:
if ( $link ) goto iw_link_text;
if(false) iw__link_text:
if ( $link ) goto iw_link_end;
if(false) iw__link_end:
goto iw_end_gt;
if (false) iw_link_begin:
echo '<a href="#">';
goto iw__link_begin;
if (false) iw_link_text:
echo 'Sample Text';
goto iw__link_text;
if (false) iw_link_end:
echo '</a>';
goto iw__link_end;
iw_end_gt:
?>
f at francislacroix dot info ¶
1 year ago
The goto operator CAN be evaluated with eval, provided the label is in the eval'd code:
<?php
a: eval("goto a;"); // undefined label 'a'
eval("a: goto a;"); // works
?>
It's because PHP does not consider the eval'd code, containing the label, to be in the same "file" as the goto statement.
Ray dot Paseur at Gmail dot com ¶
1 year ago
You cannot implement a Fortran-style "computed GOTO" in PHP because the label cannot be a variable. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful
<?php // RAY_goto.php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
// DEMONSTRATE THAT THE GOTO LABEL IS CASE-SENSITIVE
goto a;
echo 'Foo';
a: echo 'Bar';
goto A;
echo 'Foo';
A: echo 'Baz';
// CAN THE GOTO LABEL BE A VARIABLE?
$a = 'abc';
goto $a; // NOPE: PARSE ERROR
echo 'Foo';
abc: echo 'Boom';
?>
tweston at coldsteelstudios dot com ¶
2 years ago
In a challenge of myself for a college class I decided to use the goto to remove all while loops from my code. It was actually easy, and AS FAST as While loops.
<?PHP
$start = microtime(true);
$i = 0;
StartOfLoop:
$i++;
if($i < 1000000) goto StartOfLoop;
echo microtime(true) - $start.PHP_EOL;
$start = microtime(true);
$i = 0;
while($i < 1000000){
$i++;
}
echo microtime(true) - $start.PHP_EOL;
?>
roman4work at gmail dot com ¶
1 year ago
since label executes all the time even if you don't use goto label;
<?php
if (false)
goto label
label :
echo "label triggered";
?>
Will output: label triggered
I use labels like this
<?php
...some code...
if (false) {
label1 :
echo "label 1 triggered";
}
if (false) {
label2 :
echo "label 2 triggered";
}
if (false) {
label3 :
echo "label 3 triggered";
}
?>
It will never output unless you use "goto <label>".