How to loop through an associative array and get the key?

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My associative array:

$arr = array(
   1 => "Value1",
   2 => "Value2",
   10 => "Value10"
);

Using the following code, $v is filled with $arr's values

 foreach($arr as $v){
    echo($v);    // Value1, Value2, Value10
 }

How do I get $arr's keys instead?

 foreach(.....){
    echo($k);    // 1, 2, 10
 }
12 Answers

You can do:

foreach ($arr as $key => $value) {
 echo $key;
}

As described in PHP docs.

If you use array_keys(), PHP will give you an array filled with just the keys:

$keys = array_keys($arr);
foreach($keys as $key) {
    echo($key);
}

Alternatively, you can do this:

foreach($arr as $key => $value) {
    echo($key);
}

Nobody answered with regular for loop? Sometimes I find it more readable and prefer for over foreach
So here it is:

$array = array('key1' => 'value1', 'key2' => 'value2'); 

$keys = array_keys($array);

for($i=0; $i < count($keys); ++$i) {
    echo $keys[$i] . ' ' . $array[$keys[$i]] . "\n";
}

/*
  prints:
  key1 value1
  key2 value2
*/
foreach($array as $k => $v)

Where $k is the key and $v is the value

Or if you just need the keys use array_keys()

The following will allow you to get at both the key and value at the same time.

foreach ($arr as $key => $value)
{
  echo($key);
}

Oh I found it in the PHP manual.

foreach ($array as $key => $value){
    statement
}

The current element's key will be assigned to the variable $key on each loop.

Use $key => $val to get the keys:

<?php

$arr = array(
    1 => "Value1",
    2 => "Value2",
    10 => "Value10",
);

foreach ($arr as $key => $val) {
   print "$key\n";
}

?>
 foreach($arr as $key=>$value){
    echo($key);    // key
 }

If you use nested foreach() function, outer array's keys print again and again till inner array values end.

<?php 

$myArray = ['key_1' => ['value_1', 'value12'],
            'key_2' => ['value_2', 'value22'], 
            'key_3' => ['value_3', 'value32']
           ];

$keysOfMyArray = array_key($myArray);

for ($x = 0; $x < count($myArray); $x++){
       print "\t".$keysOfMyArray[$x]."\t\t".implode("\t\t",$myArray[$keysOfMyArray[$x]]."\n");
}

?>
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