Warning continue targeting switch is equivalent to break Did you mean to use continue 2

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I have php7 3 and symfony2 8  When I try to create the classes with the console I get this error       Symfony Component Debug Exception ContextErrorException Warning     continue  targeting switch is equivalent to  break   Did you mean to   use  continue 2

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aimme s answer should be accepted  I would extend his answer with  david-baucum s comment because his explanation is clear  I would also extend his answer that you can run multiple PHP versions at the same time using ppa ondrej php  Then you don t need to change the PHP version simple call the composer like this   usr bin php7 2  usr local bin composer install

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after upgrading my xampp from 7 2 0 to 7 3 0 i face this issue but after unistall composer exe and install latest composer exe from composer org than issue resolved

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In my case php was upgraded from php7 2 22 to php7 3 9   so had to downgrade cli php as composer is run on terminal    checked php version php -v   was 7 3 9    changed cli version back to 7 2 sudo update-alternatives --set php  usr bin php7 2 sudo update-alternatives --set phar  usr bin phar7 2 sudo update-alternatives --set phar phar  usr bin phar phar7 2 sudo update-alternatives --set phpize  usr bin phpize7 2 sudo update-alternatives --set php-config  usr bin php-config7 2    checked php version  php -v   was 7 2 22   additional info if you are using apache remember to keep both cli and apache in same version  in my case i had to downgrade    changed web version back to 7 2 sudo a2dismod php7 3 sudo a2enmod php7 2 sudo service apache2 restart   This will work with other versions  so feel free to switch between versions  just replace the version numbers appropriately

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In order to eliminate this error  you have to fo to the wp-config file and add these lines of code   define  WP DEBUG DISPLAY   false    ini set  display errors  0

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Sorry for the  quot diggy up quot   but i just encoured this issue with an symfony3 8 project deploiement on shared hosting  php 7 3 18     I solved this issue by set the php memory limit in the command line options  a stuff like this  php -dmemory limit -1  path to the executable

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Windows 10 Professional  PHP 7 3 1  I ran these commands to fix the problem on my desktop  php -r  copy  https   getcomposer org installer    composer-setup php     php composer-setup php

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that seems to be an issue with php7 3  I guess   If you have different version installed on your system then you could use this   php7 1  usr bin composer update    or wherever your composer is   it worked for me

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I ve got the same problem when I run composer install  I solve it by doing in composer directory php composer phar self-update and then in my project directory composer update

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Maybe your composer is outdated   Below are the steps to get rid of the error       Note  For Windows professionals  Only Step2 and Step3 is needed and done          Step1  Remove the composer   sudo apt-get remove composer   Step2  Download the composer   php -r  copy  https   getcomposer org installer    composer-setup php       Step3  Run composer-setup php file  php composer-setup php   Step4  Finally move the composer   sudo mv composer phar  usr local bin composer       Your composer should be updated now  To check it run command           composer   You can remove the downloaded composer by php command   php -r  unlink  composer-setup php

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Or download composer phar from site   https   getcomposer org download    manual download   and use command   php composer phar require your package

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The issue looks to me to be a backward incompatibility with PHP 7 3 for the continue keyword in Switch statements  Take a look at the  Continue Targeting Switch issues Warning  section in Backward Incompatible Changes    I ran into the same issue with Symfony 3 3 using PHP 7 3 and downgrading to PHP 7 2 resolved the warning

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composer self-update  composer install  Now  it should works

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I think it s a version problem  you just have to uninstall the old version of composer  then do a new installation of its new version   apt remove composer  and follow the steps   download the composer from its official release site by making use of the following command    wget https   getcomposer org download 1 6 3 composer phar   Before you proceed with the installation  you should rename before you install and make it an executable file     mv composer phar composer    chmod  x composer   Now install the package by making use the following command      composer   The composer has been successfully installed now  make it access globally using the following command  for Ubuntu 16   mv composer  usr bin   for Ubuntu 18  mv composer  usr local bin

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I upgraded to PHP 7 3  and None of these worked for me before I used    sudo wget https   getcomposer org download 1 8 0 composer phar -O  usr local bin composer  amp  amp  sudo chmod 755  usr local bin composer   It s just the version dependency  PHP 7 3   and composer update worked like a charm

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Did you try to do a composer self-update  composer self-update or composer install

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On debian 9  php7 3 the answer above pasted below worked perfectly      sudo wget https   getcomposer org download 1 8 0 composer phar -O  usr local bin composer  amp  amp  sudo chmod 755  usr local bin composer

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I changed continue to continue 2 on line 1579 in shortcodeComon php and it fixed my problem     if trim  custom link  i                       continue           Change to      if trim  custom link  i                         continue 2

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I had to upgrade doctrine orm  composer update doctrine orm  Updating doctrine orm  v2 5 13   gt  v2 6 6

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I had the same issue  but fixed it by downloading composer  amp  installing it from scratch

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If your code cannot be updated on some reason  just change your switch     continue to switch     break  as in previous versions of PHP it was meant to work this way

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I ve got same problem and got this error too  but in my case this error shows when i m trying to run composer install or composer update   and i solve this issue by running composer self-update  it works on my project

[php] Warning: "continue" targeting switch is equivalent to "break". Did you mean to use "continue 2"?

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