Get first element Array in for loop

Question

I am trying to retrieve the last names of the orders placed.

code:

for ($x = 0; $x < 25; ++$x) {
 if (($orders[$x]['paymentStatus'] == 'paid') || ($orders[$x]['paymentIsPost'] == TRUE)) {
 echo '<pre>';
 print_r($orders[$x]['lastname']);
 echo '</pre>';
 }
}

question: code is not showing me the first lastname in the array actually the name that is in position $orders[0]. I thought that pre-incrementing the variable like this ++$x like this would solve the problem. To bad thats not the case. Any tips?

Update output:

[1]""
[2]""
[3]""
[4]""
[5]""

Not sharing lastnames, which is also not relevant.

• Santa's helper: maybe you should try $x++
• izk: @Santa'shelper that's what i had before, same issue.
• Onur: That's your answer stackoverflow.com/questions/1921421/…
• VolkerK: Can you please provide an example output of var_export($orders);?
• Santa's helper: then u can try foreach instead of for, with foreach it will guarantee that loop the every element of the array

Answer 1

try the following to confirm which element of the array you are displaying (and the value of $x

 for($x = 0; $x < 25 ; $x++){
 if(($orders[$x]['paymentStatus'] == 'paid') || ($orders[$x]['paymentIsPost'] == true)){
 echo '<pre>';
 --print_r($orders[$x]['lastname']);
 echo '['.$x.']'.$orders[$x]['lastname'];
 echo '</pre>';
 }
 }

• izk: See the opcoming update to the post, it does not display [0] it starts at [1]
• Dave: See VolkerK's request for an output of $orders just to make sure what data is in there as that could be the source of your problem
• Dave: do a print_r($orders) prior to the for loop so we can see the data that is in there. I suspect that your 0 element isn't paid or paymentIsPost which is why it isn't displaying, or there isn't a 0 element
• izk: your code gave me insight in the solution thank you.
• Santa's helper: so it was $x++ instead of ++$x or another problem?