Question about exit() function

[hadoob024]

I have a question regarding the exit() function. I read the manual on this, but it didn't really answer my question. Suppose I have the following:

Script1.php:

require 'Script2.php';
blahblahblah();
echo 'junk';

And Script2.php:

function blahblahblah()
{
       exit;
}

So basically my question is, when exit() gets called from within Script2.php, does it just stop the execution of Script2.php? Or does it also stop the execution of Script1.php? Thanks!

[bpat1434]

should stop the execution of both. The way includes (and requires) include a file is that they execute it upon inclusion. So really, when you call function blahblahblah(); you'll exit everything. Or should.

If you don't want everything to stop, return something rather than exiting. Or just "continue" on....

[Rezznor]

I did something of the same thing once. Had a function going earlier on in the page with the exit(); line... couldn't figure out why the rest of the page wouldn't display after all that. I thought it just exited the if, then bit I had going on.

[hadoob024]

cool. yeah, i was using it as part of my error handling, and wanted to make sure that it exited, and completely stopped execution, and not just the execution of the included script.