diff --git a/language/control-structures.xml b/language/control-structures.xml
index 91bd297bbc..54839edd68 100644
--- a/language/control-structures.xml
+++ b/language/control-structures.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.71 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.72 $ -->
  <chapter id="control-structures">
   <title>Control Structures</title>
 
@@ -679,6 +679,14 @@ while (++$i) {
     skip the rest of the current loop iteration and continue execution
     at the beginning of the next iteration.
    </simpara>
+   <note>
+    <simpara>
+    Note that in PHP the
+    <link linkend="control-structures.switch">switch</link> statement is
+    considered a looping structure for the purposes of
+    <literal>continue</literal>.
+    </simpara>
+   </note>
    <simpara>
     <literal>continue</literal> accepts an optional numeric argument
     which tells it how many levels of enclosing loops it should skip
@@ -724,6 +732,15 @@ while ($i++ < 5) {
     on which value it equals to.  This is exactly what the
     <literal>switch</literal> statement is for.
    </simpara>
+   <note>
+    <simpara>
+    Note that unlike some other languages, the 
+    <link linkend="control-structures.continue">continue</link> statement
+    applies to switch and acts similar to <literal>break</literal>.  If you
+    have a switch inside a loop and wish to continue to the next iteration of
+    the outer loop, use <literal>continue 2</literal>.
+    </simpara>
+   </note>
    <para>
     The following two examples are two different ways to write the
     same thing, one using a series of <literal>if</literal>