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/**
 * getopts() by sergey.shuchkin[ att ]gmail.com
 * generate html options:
 * - understand key => value array
 * - understand 2d arrays (from DB)
 * - understand 2d array of objects
 * - multiple selection
 * - escape values & labels
 */
function getopts($items, $selected = NULL) {
    if (!is_array($items)) return '';
    list (,$val) = each($items);
    if (is_array($val)) { // convert DB array
        $a = array();
        foreach ($items as $k => $v) {
            list(,$val) = each($v); // 1 value
            list(,$lbl) = each($v); // 2 label
            $a[$val] = $lbl;
        }
        $items = &$a;
    }
 
    if (is_object($val)) { // convert DB objects
        $a = array();
        foreach ($items as $k => $v) {
            $p = get_object_vars( $v );
 
            list(,$val) = each($p); // 1 value
            list(,$lbl) = each($p); // 2 label
            $a[$val] = $lbl;
        }
        $items = &$a;
    }
 
    $opts = '';
    foreach ($items as $k => $v) {
        if (is_array($selected)) { // to use in multiple listbox
            $flag = in_array($k,$selected);
        } else if (!is_null($selected)) {
            $flag = $k == $selected;
        } else $flag = false;
        $opts .= '  <option value="'.htmlspecialchars($k, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8').'"'.($flag ? ' selected="selected"' : '').'>'.strip_tags($v).'</option>'."\n";
    }
    return $opts;
}