Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 12/27/05 19:17

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Leszek" <leszekt80
@poczta.onet.pl> writing in news:doguge$quq$1@news.onet.pl:

> Hi.
> Is it possible to make a select lst of all countries in the world?
> Is there a list of countries i could download and place it in my form?
>
> thanx
> Leszek
>
>

I use the ISO country codes in my database, and pull the country
name/codes from there <http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-
services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list-en1.html>.

In addition to what others have said, if you are going to make a drop
down list of countries, and your users are usually in a specific country
(ie American Loyalty Card), then have that country as the first choice.

<select name="country">
<option value="">Select Country</option>
<option value="255">United States</option>
<!-- loop through the database here -->
</select>

You can also do some best guessing looking at the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE.
That's what Google does in determining which interface to serve. For
instance, if your accept language is French, Google will serve pages in
French. Mind you, it's definately not fool proof.

--
Adrienne Boswell
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
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