Just a simple branch in PHP

[azunoman]

in most major languages, one can branch to a specific place in their code. I have never seen how one can do this in PHP, but PHP obviously does this under the covers when using IF/WHILE/FOR etc.

I come from the mainframe assembler world, yup..still using it, and I miss the capability to branch to a tag. This branch may be a simple hard branch to a specific location in script/memory, or (cats meow) a branch and link, where the routine called can return back to the caller, whomever it was.

[Moonglobe]

the php way of doing this is functions. you define a function, which can take paramters or not, and which returns a value, and then you can call it over and over.

[azunoman]

Thanks...I understand functions....but a function does not a branch make. A function is very much like a branch and link. But what if you just want to branch to a named location, HERE, from THERE...

An example, IF statements, internally are branching to a location in the program based on the test of true or false.