Should I end my PHP script with exit or exit;? [duplicate]

Question

Today I have a little weird question.
Should I end my PHP script with exit or exit; and which is correct?.

Without ;

and

With ;

Thanks.

Answer 1

exit, exit;, exit(), and exit(); are exactly the same, but the fact is that you should not end your script with an exit() call, it's just bad practice (but it works).

EDIT

Clarifying why i said it's "bad practice", it's not about the functionality of "exit" itself, it's OK to halt the script execution if something bad happens, but the concept of "something bad" is really wide. In general, even if some unwanted condition occurs, the normal execution flow should reach to the end of the file. Just consider this example:

...some init stuff...
if (!user_is_authenticated) {
   ...print some nasty message...
   exit();
}
...continue with normal stuff...

A better approach would be:

...some init stuff...
if (user_is_authenticated) {
   ...continue with normal stuff...
}
else {
   ...print some nasty message...
}

What's the difference? The difference is that in the second version you don't need to use exit(), which means if one day you need to do something after BOTH the "normal" and "unwanted" execution flows you can just add it at the end of the file.

It's more or less the same argument about why you should NOT use "return" in function bodies except at the end of the function..

Answer 2

It is allways a good practise to use semicolon

<?php

//exit program normally
exit;
exit();
exit(0);

//exit with an error code
exit(1);
exit(0376); //octal

?>