Alternate Control Syntaxes

[chinmay.sahoo]

PHP offers another way to start and end the bodies of the if, switch, for, and while constructs. It amounts to replacing the initial brace of the enclosed block with a colon and the closing brace with a special ending statement for that construct (endif, endswitch, endfor, and endwhile). For example, the if syntax becomes

if (expression):
statement1
statement2
..
endif;

Or:

if (expression):
statement1
statement2
..
elseif (expression2):
statement3
..
else:
statement4
..
endif;

[harrywood]

PHP offers an alternative syntax for some of its control structures; namely, if, while, for, foreach, and switch. In each case, the basic form of the alternate syntax is to change the opening brace to a colon ( and the closing brace to endif;, endwhile;, endfor;, endforeach;, or endswitch;, respectively.