PHP Coding styles return; in switch/case

Question

we\'re trying to implement new coding style guidelines for our team, the php codesniffer is printing an warning on switch case statements when no \"break\" is found like:

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Answer 1

From the PHP manual (http://us3.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.switch.php) :

PHP continues to execute the statements until the end of the switch block, or the first time it sees a break statement. If you don't write a break statement at the end of a case's statement list, PHP will go on executing the statements of the following case. For example:

Here, if $i is equal to 0, PHP would execute all of the echo statements! If $i is equal to 1, PHP would execute the last two echo statements. You would get the expected behavior ('i equals 2' would be displayed) only if $i is equal to 2. Thus, it is important not to forget break statements (even though you may want to avoid supplying them on purpose under certain circumstances).