exit Output a message and terminate the current script &reftitle.description; voidexit stringstatus voidexit intstatus Terminates execution of the script. Shutdown functions and object destructors will always be executed even if exit is called. exit is a language construct and it can be called without parentheses if no status is passed. &reftitle.parameters; status If status is a string, this function prints the status just before exiting. If status is an int, that value will be used as the exit status and not printed. Exit statuses should be in the range 0 to 254, the exit status 255 is reserved by PHP and shall not be used. The status 0 is used to terminate the program successfully. &reftitle.returnvalues; &return.void; &reftitle.examples; <literal>exit</literal> example ]]> <literal>exit</literal> status example ]]> Shutdown functions and destructors run regardless ]]> &example.outputs; &reftitle.notes; ¬e.language-construct; This language construct is equivalent to die. &reftitle.seealso; register_shutdown_function