'continue' is targeting 'switch' statement
Reports the continue statements that are targeting switch statements. In PHP 7.3 and later, such usages are deprecated and will emit an E_WARNING, since they are most likely the result of a programming mistake.
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Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.
PhpContinueTargetingSwitchInspection
In PHP, such
continuestatements are equivalent tobreak, that is, they end the execution of the currentswitchstructure.In other languages, such
continuestatements behave ascontinue 2in PHP, that is, they take the execution to a higher level control structure (for example, the next iteration of an outer loop).
See continue (php.net), break (php.net), and switch (php.net) for details.
Here you can find the description of settings available for the 'continue' is targeting 'switch' statement inspection, and the reference of their default values.
You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:
//noinspection PhpContinueTargetingSwitchInspectionnote
Actual comment syntax will depend on the code language you are working with
More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:
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By default bundled with: | IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, PhpStorm 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2, Qodana for PHP 2025.2, |