When facing difficulties with modifying values in an associative array, what alternative solution was implemented by the user in the forum thread?

The user was facing difficulties modifying values in an associative array because they were trying to directly modify the values using the array keys. To solve this issue, the user implemented a solution where they created a new array, looped through the original array, and modified the values as needed before assigning them to the new array. 

// Original associative array
$originalArray = array(
    'key1' => 'value1',
    'key2' => 'value2',
    'key3' => 'value3'
);

// New array to store modified values
$newArray = array();

// Loop through original array and modify values
foreach ($originalArray as $key => $value) {
    // Modify the value as needed
    $modifiedValue = $value . '_modified';
    
    // Assign the modified value to the new array
    $newArray[$key] = $modifiedValue;
}

// Output the new array with modified values
print_r($newArray);

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