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+2006-09-21 Sebastian Mendel <cybot_tm@users.sourceforge.net>
+    * libraries/PMA_List.class.php: new PMA_List class
+
 2006-09-20 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
     ### 2.9.0 released from QA_2_9
 
diff --git a/libraries/PMA_List.class.php b/libraries/PMA_List.class.php
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+<?php
+/**
+ * hold the PMA_List base class
+ */
+
+/**
+ * @todo add caching
+ * @since phpMyAdmin 2.9.10
+ * @abstract
+ */
+/* abstract public */ class PMA_List
+{
+    /**
+     * @var array   the list items
+     * @access public
+     */
+    var $items = array();
+
+    /**
+     * @var array   details for list items
+     * @access public
+     */
+    var $details = array();
+
+    /**
+     * @var bool    whether we need to re-index the database list for consistency keys
+     * @access protected
+     */
+    var $_need_to_reindex = false;
+
+    /**
+     * @var mixed   empty item
+     */
+    var $item_empty = '';
+
+    /**
+     * returns first item from list
+     *
+     * @uses    PMA_List::$items to get first item
+     * @uses    reset() to retrive first item from PMA_List::$items array
+     * @return  string  value of first item
+     */
+    function getFirst()
+    {
+        return reset($this->items);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * returns item only if there is only one in the list
+     *
+     * @uses    PMA_List::count() to decide what to return
+     * @uses    PMA_List::getFirst() to return it
+     * @uses    PMA_List::getEmpty() to return it
+     * @return  single item
+     */
+    function getSingleItem()
+    {
+        if ($this->count() === 1) {
+            return $this->getFirst();
+        }
+
+        return $this->getEmpty();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * returns list item count
+     *
+     * @uses    PMA_List::$items to count it items
+     * @uses    count() to count items in PMA_List::$items
+     * @return  integer PMA_List::$items count
+     */
+    function count()
+    {
+        return count($this->items);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * defines what is an empty item (0, '', false or null)
+     *
+     * @uses    PMA_List::$item_empty as return value
+     * @return  mixed   an empty item
+     */
+    function getEmpty()
+    {
+        return $this->item_empty;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * checks if the given db names exists in the current list, if there is
+     * missing at least one item it reutrns false other wise true
+     *
+     * @uses    PMA_List::$items to check for existence of specific item
+     * @uses    func_get_args()
+     * @uses    in_array() to check if given arguments exists in PMA_List::$items
+     * @param   string  $db_name,..     one or more mysql result resources
+     * @return  boolean true if all items exists, otheriwse false
+     */
+    function exists()
+    {
+        foreach (func_get_args() as $result) {
+            if (! in_array($result, $this->items)) {
+                return false;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * returns HTML <option>-tags to be used inside <select></select>
+     *
+     * @uses    PMA_List::$items to build up the option items
+     * @uses    PMA_List::getDefault() to mark this as sleected if requested
+     * @uses    htmlspecialchars() to escape items
+     * @param   mixed   $selected   the selected db or true for selecting current db
+     * @return  string  HTML option tags
+     */
+    function getHtmlOptions($selected = '')
+    {
+        if (true === $selected) {
+            $selected = $this->getDefault();
+        }
+
+        $options = '';
+        foreach ($this->items as $each_db) {
+            $options .= '<option value="' . htmlspecialchars($each_db) . '"';
+            if ($selected === $each_db) {
+                $options .= ' selected="selected"';
+            }
+            $options .= '>' . htmlspecialchars($each_db) . '</option>' . "\n";
+        }
+
+        return $options;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * returns default item
+     *
+     * @uses    PMA_List::getEmpty() as fallback
+     * @return  string  default item
+     */
+    function getDefault()
+    {
+        return $this->getEmpty();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * builds up the list
+     *
+     * @abstract
+     */
+    /* abstract public */ function build() {}
+}
+?>
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