Question

I’m including file inner.php in outer.php, I have a condition in inner.php on which I want to stop executing inner.php but NOT the whole script, i.e. I want to jump to the first line in outer.php after the inclusion of inner.php, and I don’t want to wrap all of the code in inner.php in an if statement.

Is there a way to do this otherwise?

Answer 1

Just do return; or return($value); on top level of the inner.php file.

If called from the global scope, then
execution of the current script file
is ended. If the current script file
was include()ed or require()ed, then
control is passed back to the calling
file. Furthermore, if the current
script file was include()ed, then the
value given to return() will be
returned as the value of the include()
call.