Break out of loop from included file? - php

Question

I am trying to organize my "actions" a little bit better, currently it is a giant switch statement with a ton of cases, and it's very hard to manage. I want to move the actions into their own files that can be managed easier. But I am trying to sort through an issue.
I have a foreach loop that loops over all the "called actions" and calls them. Then I have a bunch of actions, but some actions I want to end execution of the current loop (i.e. continue; or break;) but that does not seem to be working on an included file.
Is there anyway else I could do this? I also need the "actions" to have access to all the current variables defined in the executing script (which is why I went for include).
Currently...
included_file.php
<?php
blah blah stuff
if(statement) {
// accesses variables declared in calling_file.php
continue;
}
?>
calling_file.php
<?php
blah blah stuff
// declare variables that need to be accessed in included_files.php
foreach() {
include included_file.php
}
?>
Now for some actions I want to stop the current loop and move onto the next. Any ideas?

Answer 1

If I understand your question properly, it appears you want to get a result from the included file that signals what you want to do (break,continue) and then a simple switch statement to allow an inner loop to break an outer loop. The break control structure will allow you to do this.
calling_file.php
<?php
$includes = array ('included_file1.php', 'included_file2.php', 'included_file3.php');
const CONTROL_BREAK = 3;
const CONTROL_CONTINUE = 7;
// declare variables that need to be accessed in included_files.php
foreach($includes as $include) {
print "Including $include\n";
$result = include($include);
switch ($result){
case CONTROL_BREAK:
break 2;
case CONTROL_CONTINUE:
default:
continue 2;
}
}
included_file1.php
<?php
print __FILE__ . " has been included!\n";
if(TRUE) {
print "I should continue!\n";
return CONTROL_CONTINUE;
}
included_file2.php
<?php
print __FILE__ . " has been included!\n";
if(TRUE) {
print "I should break!\n";
return CONTROL_BREAK;
}
included_file3.php
<?php
print __FILE__ . " has been included!\n";
if(TRUE) {
print "You should never see me!";
}