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The title of this article should be exit(), but due to technical restrictions, cannot contain parenthesis.

Terminate the current script and output a message. This function is a language construct.

Arguments

void exit ({{{params}}})


Argument Inclusion

(PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5)

Examples

Example 1:

 <?php
 $filename = '/path/to/sample_file';
 $file = fopen($filename, 'r')
   or exit("cannot open file ($filename)");
 ?>

Output

Cannot open file sample_file

Example 2:

 <?php
 exit('Output this sample error message.');
 ?>

Output

Output this sample error message.
For more details on this function, visit its entry in the php manual.