Function Reqest/Question

Is there a func() that will let me break or skip to the END of the <? ?> code snippet? I have a file that contains both HTML and PHP. <html header code> <? if condition "skip;" ... php code ... ?> <html footer code> I know there are several ways of attacking this. Including making a func() that outputs the footer - skip() containing a bunch of print statements with the footer html. ... I was hoping for a straight forward solution built into php. I tried to use return 0; but that didn't work it seems to stop loading the rest of the page. Thanks in advance.