i have a select box which display all the countries. when user register, they will need to choose they are from which country.

my problem is when retrieve out the country for display purpose. how am i suppose to do it?

this is part of the code:
for normal select box, i will do something like this when retrieving..
i dowan to use this way because the country list is too long. if ihave to use this method, i wil have to do if statement for each and every country.

is there any alternative ways that i can do? shorter method?? better ways?? pls help!

how about doing some function.

function trans_country($code) {
switch ($code) {
case "AF":
$country = "Afghanistan";
break;
case "MY":
$country = "Malaysia";
break;
// and so on..
default:
$country = "";
break;

}// end switch
return $country;
}// end trans_country function

function return_option($code) {
echo '<option value='.$code;
echo "selected";
$country = trans_country($code);
echo ' >'.$country;
echo "</option>";
}

Jadi bila run function

return_option($code);

should do it.. but the long translation of the country still needed.. hope this help..

r0kawa

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how about this...

lets say you wanna hv malaysia selected:

$array['selected']['australia'] = "";
$array['selected']['indonesia'] = "";
$array['selected']['malaysia'] = "";
$array['selected']['thailand'] = "";
$array['selected']['singapore'] = "";

if(isset(my_country)){
$array['selected'][$my_country] = "selected";
}


<select name="my_country">
<option value="australia" <? echo $array['selected']['australia']?>>Australia
<option value="malaysia" <? echo $array['selected']['malaysia']?>>Malaysia
<option value="yyy" <? echo $array['selected']['yyyy']?>>Malaysia
<option value="xxx" <? echo $array['selected']['xxx']?>>XXX
</select>



genedavinci

i think the best away is to make your list of country name in a array... do a loop to initialize the $array['selected'][countryname'], if set $my_country, update your array with selected country, do a loop again to print out your entire list of country name.


hope this will help

OR, you could use a pre-written PHP class for displaying country select boxes. you can get a whole bunch of these kind classes (help u display forms) from this site:
http://phpclass.kiffer.idv.tw/browse.html/class/1.html

here's some direct links to a few of the scripts:
http://phpclass.kiffer.idv.tw/goto/b...ckage/129.html
http://phpclass.kiffer.idv.tw/goto/b...ckage/406.html
http://phpclass.kiffer.idv.tw/goto/b...package/5.html

also, you'll need to know how to use classes in PHP in order to properly use these scripts.

plus, to download the scripts, you'll need to register with the site, its free anyway.

good luck.

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