Information may be passed to functions via the argument list, which is a comma-delimited list of expressions. PHP supports passing arguments by value (the default),

<?php $makefoo = true; /* We can’t call foo() from here since it doesn’t exist yet, but we can call bar() */ bar(); if ($makefoo)

The include() statement includes and evaluates the specified file. The documentation below also applies to require(). Files are included based on the file path given

require() is identical to include() except upon failure it will also produce a fatal E_COMPILE_ERROR level error. In other words, it will halt the script

If called from within a function, the return() statement immediately ends execution of the current function, and returns its argument as the value of the

The declare construct is used to set execution directives for a block of code. The syntax of declare is similar to the syntax of other

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

continue is used within looping structures to skip the rest of the current loop iteration and continue execution at the condition evaluation and then the

break ends execution of the current for, foreach, while, do-while or switch structure. break accepts an optional numeric argument which tells it how many nested