Looping through Associative Array not working as expected? - php

Question

I am having a array like so and I am looping trough it like this:
$options = array();
$options[0] = 'test1';
$options[1] = 'test2';
$options[2] = 'test3';
foreach($options as $x)
{
echo "Value=" . $x ;
echo "<br>";
}
It outputs as expected:
Value=test
Value=test2
Value=test3
Now I want to add some options to my array and loop trough them:
$options = array();
$options['first_option'] = 'test';
$options['second_option'] = get_option('second_option');
$options['third_option'] = get_option('third_option');
foreach($options as $x)
{
echo "Value=" . $x ;
echo "<br>";
}
But it does not work as I want. Because it outputs:
Value=first_option
Value=second_option
Value=third_option
So now I do not know how to access stored values using foreach from these guys?
Something like:
Value=first_option='test'
So when I use print_r($options)
Output is:
Array
(
[first_options] => test
[second_option] =>
[third_option] =>
)
1

Answer 1

your loop should look like this:
foreach($options as $key => $val){
echo "Val: ".$val;
echo "<br/>";
}

Answer 2

Your code is working just as expected and producing the desired result. You must have something else changing the values in $options. Correction: now that I see your edit, your functions are not returning any values, so options 1 and 2 are blank. Make sure that function returns something. Other than that, all of this code is good.
By the way, I recommend this:
$options = [
'first_option' => 'test',
'second_option' => get_option('second_option'),
'third_option' => get_option('third_option')
];
foreach($options as $key) {
echo "Value = {$key}<br>";
}
you can also use:
foreach($options as $key => $value) {
echo "Value - {$value} = {$key}<br>";
}
or you could at least replace array() with just []. Those are just some suggestions for neatness.