/**
  * 
  * get cats and taxanomies data from the input
  */
 private function getCatAndTaxData($catIDs)
 {
     if (is_string($catIDs)) {
         $catIDs = trim($catIDs);
         if (empty($catIDs)) {
             return array("tax" => "", "cats" => "");
         }
         $catIDs = explode(",", $catIDs);
     }
     $strCats = "";
     $arrTax = array();
     foreach ($catIDs as $cat) {
         if (strpos($cat, "option_disabled") === 0) {
             continue;
         }
         $pos = strrpos($cat, "_");
         if ($pos === false) {
             UniteFunctionsBiz::throwError("The category is in wrong format");
         }
         $taxName = substr($cat, 0, $pos);
         $catID = substr($cat, $pos + 1, strlen($cat) - $pos - 1);
         //translate catID to current language if wpml exists
         $catID = UniteWpmlBiz::changeCatIdByLang($catID, $taxName);
         $arrTax[$taxName] = $taxName;
         if (!empty($strCats)) {
             $strCats .= ",";
         }
         $strCats .= $catID;
     }
     $strTax = "";
     foreach ($arrTax as $taxName) {
         if (!empty($strTax)) {
             $strTax .= ",";
         }
         $strTax .= $taxName;
     }
     $output = array("tax" => $strTax, "cats" => $strCats);
     return $output;
 }
 /**	
  * 
  * get post categories list assoc - id / title
  */
 public static function getCategoriesAssoc($taxonomy = "category")
 {
     if (strpos($taxonomy, ",") !== false) {
         $arrTax = explode(",", $taxonomy);
         $arrCats = array();
         foreach ($arrTax as $tax) {
             $cats = self::getCategoriesAssoc($tax);
             $arrCats = array_merge($arrCats, $cats);
         }
         return $arrCats;
     }
     //$cats = get_terms("category");
     $args = array("taxonomy" => $taxonomy);
     $cats = get_categories($args);
     $arrCats = array();
     foreach ($cats as $cat) {
         $numItems = $cat->count;
         $itemsName = "items";
         if ($numItems == 1) {
             $itemsName = "item";
         }
         $title = $cat->name . " ({$numItems} {$itemsName})";
         $id = $cat->cat_ID;
         $id = UniteWpmlBiz::getIdFromLangId($id, $cat->taxonomy);
         $arrCats[$id] = $title;
     }
     return $arrCats;
 }