How to exit friendly in my controller

exit/quit kills PHP runtime imediatley. Basically you should not call in your app it.

And in fact a controller is a class that returns a Response object.

> Is there any way or more friendly function offered by CI4 Framework to replace exit/quit?

What do you want to do?
In your sample code, it seems okay that you just add return and remove die().

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