Returning Void

By Frederic Bouchery

A very large majority think that it doesn’t cause an error and yet, it does. PHP raises a fatal error during the compilation phase when the return type is “void” but the function contains return statements with values.

See Also

• Void (PHP manual)

• Double Return [Try me]

PHP Error Messages

• A void function must not return a value (did you mean “return;” instead of “return null;”?)

PHP Features

• return

• void