Goto Statement in PHP - Learn in 20 Mins

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Go to Statement in PHP

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Go To in PHP

• Goto statement is only available in latest
  version of PHP and its PHP 5.3 or higher PHP
  versions.We can say Goto statement is used to
  jump to other section of the program.
• The Goto Statement requires a label to identify
  the place where the branch to be made. A label is
  any valid variable name and must be followed by
  colon(). A label is immediately placed before
  the statement where the control is to be
  transferred.

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The general form of Goto
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Some Important Notes

• The label can be in anywhere in the program
  before or after the gotolabel statement.
• goto is not a function. Its just a statement.
• When program run and get the statement like go to
  first the flow of program will jump to the
  statement first .This occurs unconditionally.

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Example

• echo "Lets start with Go To"."ltbr /gt"
• goto read
• echo "Skip the code with Goto jump"
• read
• echo "Execute the code with Goto jump"

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OutPUT

• Lets start with Go To
• Execute the code with Goto jump

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Last but not least

• In the previous example, when the code encounters
  the goto statement, the control transfer to the
  label read.
• "Dont go to GO TO statement".Try to avoid the use
  of goto as far as possible but there is nothing
  wrong if we use it to improve execution speed of
  program.

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