Monday 19 September 2005 4:46:26 pm

Ok no suggestions, how about this...

I went looking for an auto-populate script to find out how it is done and I found one that uses javascript, only problem is it has some bugs and to get around them the author has found adding a whole heap of empty <option> tags to the HTML kills the bugs, however it also kills validation (Client requests valid XHTML strict).

I may be able to rework the script to be more compliant but is it possible to pass information from a template to the system?

I also found this http://ajax.zervaas.com.au/examples/CountryRegionCityJax/
And I wondered if something like this could be made into an extension? Unfortunately I have no idea how to make my own extension, maybe someone could give me a few pointers (if it is a doable thing)?

Cheers!

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Tuesday 20 September 2005 4:38:51 pm

Hi Lex Thanks for your input, I have already looked at the ezcountry datatype in the contribs, this looks like what I need for the first part but I'm not 100% sure what you mean when it comes to the states...

Are you saying that for each country I need to create a states class?

Or do you mean I should create just one states class that contains all of the states for all of the countries?

Or do you mean I should create a states datatype?

If I need to create a class for each country I'm going to end up with a lot of bloat in setup/classes, so I assume you don't mean for that.

I was thinking about trying to extend the current country datatype to include the states but I haven't looked to deep into the datatype yet as I was hoping someone may have a better idea.

Certainly I'll look into your suggestions and thankyou for them, if you could just clarify this method with a little more detail that would be great.

Cheers!

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Wednesday 21 September 2005 4:10:45 pm

Cheers Lex I'll give it a go and see what I can come up with, I think creating a datatype is the way to go, as you said it will be much cleaner.

Now I just need to figure out how to create a datatype...(I don't really know PHP at all so this should be fun).

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