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Does anyone know how to change the country dropdown lists to default to a specific country. As you know they default to aphabetical order. I want to be able to have United States to be listed out of order at the top of the list with the others in the normal order. Is this a php edit or a SQL edit and where and how would it be done?

Thanks,

Ok I found it after digging through the custimization info.

You can also make any country appear by default while still having the pull down list available.

In includes/functions/html_output.php at about line 299 find:

$countries_array = array(array('id' => '', 'text' => PULL_DOWN_DEFAULT));

Replace (for the United States) with...

// $countries_array = array(array('id' => '', 'text' => PULL_DOWN_DEFAULT));
$countries_array = array(array('id' => '223', 'text' => 'United States'));

I just commented out the original line to keep it as a reference.
You can change the country id and the text in this line to make any country appear by default.


Thanks anyway

Hi actually you want to change the includes/languages/english.php

at about line 140

// pull down default text
define('PULL_DOWN_DEFAULT', 'United States');

Your method worked perfectly, thanks!

thnks a lot

A cleaner way to do this, whilst preserving the OSCommerce languages system is:

in catalogue/includes/languages/english.php (& for all languages in use):

Change:
define('PULL_DOWN_DEFAULT', 'Please Select');
to
define('PULL_DOWN_DEFAULT', '**Default Country Here**');

Then below that, add:
define('PULL_DOWN_DEFAULT_VALUE', '**your country id here**');


In catalogue/includes/functions/html_output.php

Change:
$countries_array = array(array('id' => '', 'text' => PULL_DOWN_DEFAULT));

To:
$countries_array = array(array('id' => PULL_DOWN_DEFAULT_VALUE, 'text' => PULL_DOWN_DEFAULT));

FYI I did the above and it made the default for my Manufactures list United States. So this is not a working solution.

Just had the same problem i'd select United Kingdom and it would show up as United States - turned out that the array 'id' => '223' was causing it to switch to United States - even if you change the text after. So to change it for other countries you need the number. In my case the UK was 222 so the resulting code is:

$countries_array = array(array('id' => '222', 'text' => 'United Kingdom'));

so the id and the text have now been changed. To find the others I think you can use view source on the resulting page, or just guess.

you can use the active countries
http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,3607

is there a way to bring my 3 neighborhood countrys on top and the others down?

please choose:
germany
austria
swiss
---------
rest of the world
spain
usa
...
...
...
.

Hi guys,

here's the problem: I just modified the all files and everything seems to be ok except 2 files that I realy don't know how to figured out

files: 1. check_out_shipping.php (when you want to add a new shipping address)
2. checkout_payment_address.php (When you want to add a new Billing address)

does anyone know how to change the state filed to have pre-selected the state that I want (not country, that one I have fix it)

any help will be nice

here's the code from the checkout_shipping_address.php




Where can set the default state/provincie id ?

Add



Above



and change to



NOTE the

in create_account.php and any other pages that need it.

Sorry the code should be like this for it to work correctly:

I have found the simplest way to set a default country is to make the following change to includes/functions/html_output.php on or around line 303..

Look for: function tep_get_country_list($name, $selected = '', $parameters = '') {

Change $selected = '' to $selected = '223' so it looks like this...

function tep_get_country_list($name, $selected = '223', $parameters = '') {

That would make USA the default country. For those in other countries just substitute 223 with your country.