The include_once() statement includes and evaluates the specified file during the execution of the script. This is a behavior similar to the include() statement, with the important difference that if the code from a file has already been included, it will not be included again. As mentioned in the require_once() description, the include_once() should be used in the cases in which

The require_once() statement replaces itself with the specified file, much like the C preprocessor’s #include works, and in that respect is similar to the require() statement. The main difference is that in an inclusion chain, the use of require_once() will assure that the code is added to your script only once, and avoid clashes with variable values or function names that can happen. For

The include() statement includes and evaluates the specified file. If “URL fopen wrappers” are enabled in PHP (which they are in the default configuration), you can specify the file to be include()ed using an URL instead of a local pathname. See Remote files and fopen() for more information. An important note about how this works is that when a file is include()ed

The require() statement replaces itself with the specified file, much like the C preprocessor’s #include works. If “URL fopen wrappers” are enabled in PHP (which they are in the default configuration), you can specify the file to be require()ed using an URL instead of a local pathname. See Remote files and fopen() for more information. An important note about

The switch statement is similar to a series of IF statements on the same expression. In many occasions, you may want to compare the same variable (or expression) with many different values, and execute a different piece of code depending on which value it equals to. This is exactly what the switch statement is for. The following two examples are two different ways to write the

continue is used within looping structures to skip the rest of the current loop iteration and continue execution at the beginning of the next iteration. continue accepts an optional numeric argument which tells it how many levels of enclosing loops it should skip to the end of. while (list ($key, $value) = each ($arr)) { if (!($key % 2)) { // skip odd members continue;

break ends execution of the current for, while, or switch structure. break accepts an optional numeric argument which tells it how many nested enclosing structures are to be broken out of. $arr = array ('one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'stop', 'five'); while (list (, $val) = each ($arr)) { if ($val == 'stop') { break; /* You could also write 'break 1;' here. */ }

PHP4 (not PHP3) includes a foreach construct, much like perl and some other languages. This simply gives an easy way to iterate over arrays. There are two syntaxes; the second is a minor but useful extension of the first: foreach(array_expression as $value) statement foreach(array_expression as $key => $value) statement The first form loops over the array given by array_expression.

for loops are the most complex loops in PHP. They behave like their C counterparts. The syntax of a for loop is: for (expr1; expr2; expr3) statement The first expression (expr1) is evaluated (executed) once unconditionally at the beginning of the loop. In the beginning of each iteration, expr2 is evaluated. If it evaluates to TRUE, the loop continues and the nested

do..while loops are very similar to while loops, except the truth expression is checked at the end of each iteration instead of in the beginning. The main difference from regular while loops is that the first iteration of a do..while loop is guarenteed to run (the truth expression is only checked at the end of the iteration), whereas it’s may not necessarily run with a