How do you when using custom fields in Wordpress echo just the first value using foreach?

Currently the code is:

    <?php for(get_field('venue_event') as $post_object): ?>
        <a href="<?php echo get_permalink($post_object); ?>"><?php echo get_the_title($post_object) ?></a>
    <?php endforeach; ?>

This takes the field from the wordpress page (the field is a link to another page), creates a link to that page using get_permalink but when I want to echo the page title it does it, but then it also echos all other values that are not needed.

• php
• wordpress
• foreach
• echo
• custom-fields

If you just want the execute the first iteration of the loop, try this:

<?php foreach(get_field('venue_event') as $post_object): ?>
    <a href="<?php echo get_permalink($post_object); ?>"><?php echo get_the_title($post_object) ?></a>
<?php break; ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>

you can just add

$counter = 0;
<?php for(get_field('venue_event') as $post_object): ?>
    $counter++;
    if($counter == 1)
     {
    <a href="<?php echo get_permalink($post_object); ?>"><?php echo get_the_title($post_object) ?></a>
     }

<?php endforeach; ?>

Wouldn't it then be easier just to use the first element of the returned array? Maybe Wordpress offers other filters that return the the page's title only.