Is there an alternative to die?

Question

Sorry for the dramatic sounding title, just wanted to know if there is a way to prevent all types of PHP commands from executing EXCEPT one.

For example, now when I kill a script using die() my pages look half broken because the bottom part of the page's html failed to load since it was being brought in using the include() function.

So is there a way to tell PHP "don't allow any more commands to be executed except the include function" ?

Answer 1

You can use return to "terminate" an included file, without killing the whole script:

test1.php

<?php
include 'test2.php';
echo 'foo';

test2.php

<?php
echo 'bar';
return;
echo 'baz';

Outputs:

barfoo