Continue and Break statements are used within loops (like for, foreach, while, and do-while) to control the flow of execution.

Continue Statement:

• Purpose: Skips current iteration in a loop.
• Effect: When encountered, it skips the rest of the code in the current loop iteration and jumps to the next iteration.

Break Statement:

• Purpose: Immediately exits the loop
• Effect: When encountered, it stops the loop completely, even if there are more iterations remaining. The script continues execution after the loop..

Here's a basic example illustrating the difference between continue and break:

<?php
// Example illustrating continue and break

echo "Using continue:\n";
for ($i = 1; $i <= 5; $i++) {
    if ($i % 2 == 0) {
        continue; // Skip even numbers
    }
    echo $i . "\n"; // Print only odd numbers
}

echo "\nUsing break:\n";
for ($i = 1; $i <= 5; $i++) {
    if ($i == 3) {
        break; // Exit loop when i equals 3
    }
    echo $i . "\n"; // Print numbers until i equals 3
}
?>

Output:

Using continue:
1
3
5

Using break:
1
2

In this example:

• With continue, the loop continues to the next iteration after skipping even numbers.
• With break, the loop stops completely when i equals 3, even though there are more iterations remaining.