... Next . break ends execution of the current for , foreach while , do..while or switch structure. break accepts an optional numeric argument which tells it how many nested enclosing structures are to be broken out of. $ arr = array ('one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'stop', 'five'); while (list (, $ val ) = each ($ arr )) { if ($ val == 'stop') { break ; /* You could also write ' break 1;' here. */ } echo $ ... foreach . ...