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PHP — Page 2

Core PHP language features, patterns, and fundamentals.

break and continue in PHP: What They Actually Do

break exits the loop entirely; continue skips just the current iteration — a small distinction that's easy to mix up, plus the numeric-argument form for breaking out of nested loops.

The break and continue Statements in PHP

break exits the loop entirely; continue only skips to the next iteration — mixing the two up is a subtle logic bug, not a syntax error, since both are valid anywhere inside a loop.

What Are Traits in PHP? A Practical Example

Traits let you share a set of methods across multiple classes that can't share a common parent — a form of horizontal code reuse PHP added specifically because single inheritance wasn't enough.