[ciapug] explode goes boom?

[Chris Van Cleve]

Alright, here's another one of those "I brought my code into PHP 5  
from PHP 4 and now I get errors!" things. Granted, this just throws a  
PHP_NOTICE, but I hate log bloat so I'm looking to reduce it. THe  
code snippet in question follows (part of a forms class):

// Check for <select> options
$selOptions = '';
if(count($options)>0)
{
   foreach($options as $value=>$text)
   {
     if(empty($value) || empty($text))
     {
       throw new Exception('Invalid value or text for <' . $type . '>  
element');
     }
     $value = explode('|',$value);
     $value = ($value[1] == 'selected') ? $value[0] . '"  
selected=true"' : implode('',$value);
     $selOptions .= '<option value="' . $value . '">' . $text . '</ 
option>';
   }
}

The $options var is an array of key=>value pairs. The bottom segment  
is there to parse the key for |selected to set an option in a select  
list as the default. The code works fine, but throws the following in  
my apache log for every option without |selected in the key (edited  
to preserve sanity):

[error] PHP Notice:  Undefined offset:  1 in forms.inc.php on line ##

I understand WHY it's throwing the error. What I'm stuck on is  
finding an elegant way to get around it. ;)

Any suggestions welcome.

Chris VC

P.S. Subversion beats the pants off of CVS and a three tiered  
delivery system using it as the SCM is absolutely the best solution  
available today! I'm loving it! Thanks for everyone's input on that.