<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >exit</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Miscellaneous functions" HREF="ref.misc.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="eval" HREF="function.eval.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="get_browser" HREF="function.get-browser.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.eval.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.get-browser.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.exit" ></A >exit</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN55492" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >exit -- Output a message and terminate the current script</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN55495" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >void <B CLASS="methodname" >exit</B > ( [string status])<BR ></BR >void <B CLASS="methodname" >exit</B > ( int status)<BR ></BR ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > This is not a real function, but a language construct. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > The <B CLASS="function" >exit()</B > function terminates execution of the script. It prints <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >status</I ></TT > just before exiting. </P ><P > If <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >status</I ></TT > is an <A HREF="language.types.integer.html" ><B CLASS="type" >integer</B ></A >, that value will also be used as the exit status. Exit statuses should be in the range 1 to 254, the exit status 255 is reserved by PHP and shall not be used. </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > The current CVS version does NOT print the <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >status</I ></TT > if it is an <A HREF="language.types.integer.html" ><B CLASS="type" >integer</B ></A >. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > The <A HREF="function.die.html" ><B CLASS="function" >die()</B ></A > function is an alias for <B CLASS="function" >exit()</B >. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN55526" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >exit()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php $filename = '/path/to/data-file'; $file = fopen ($filename, 'r') or exit("unable to open file ($filename)"); ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.eval.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.get-browser.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >eval</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.misc.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >get_browser</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >