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For the second time in 2 days I find myself writing a function that is a wrapper around getfields - with the requirement in both cases to have an array of keys being field names & values being field title.

I feel like it would be worth implementing

getfieldssimple or another format option (the second option has the problem that formats are not just for getfields)



 /**
   * Returns a list of fields available to be mapped for users
   *
   * @return array
   *  Keys: machine names of the fields (to be passed to addFieldMapping)
   *  Values: Human-friendly descriptions of the fields.
   */
  public function fields() {
  if(!civicrm_initialize()){
    return;
  }
  require_once 'CRM/Utils/Array.php';
   $fields = civicrm_api($this->entity,'getfields',array('version' => 3));
  $values = array();
  foreach ($fields['values'] as $field => $valueArray) {
    $values[$field] = CRM_Utils_Array::value('title',$valueArray,CRM_Utils_Array::value('label',$valueArray,$valueArray['name']));
  }
   return $values;
  }

NB - it might be that we should return a 'title' or other descriptive field if one doesn't exist as part of getfields - much like the above does.