POSTED December 17th 2010

Come on, you know you want to buy me a beer!

So, here is a method to list all 50 US States drop down list.

All the work's done. Just copy and paste the code into a new PHP file to run it.

Have fun!

Code:
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<?php 
/** 
 * US STATE DROPDOWN LIST 
 * ROGER E THOMAS December 2010 
 * http://www.rogerethomas.com 
 * Completely free to download and use in your scripts. 
 * Call as: echo listUSStates($state_values,$dropdown_name,$key_selected); 
 *  
 * $dropdown_name is the name of the final select box. 
 * $key_selected is the value of the index that should be selected by default
 *              This should come in handy when dealing with incorrect address
 *              information and promting the user for more info. 
 *  
 *  
 */

/**
 * 
 * Between these lines (below) is the function.
 * 
 */
$state_values=array(
                'AL'=>"Alabama",
                'AK'=>"Alaska",  
                'AZ'=>"Arizona",  
                'AR'=>"Arkansas",  
                'CA'=>"California",  
                'CO'=>"Colorado",  
                'CT'=>"Connecticut",  
                'DE'=>"Delaware",  
                'DC'=>"District Of Columbia",  
                'FL'=>"Florida",  
                'GA'=>"Georgia",  
                'HI'=>"Hawaii",  
                'ID'=>"Idaho",  
                'IL'=>"Illinois",  
                'IN'=>"Indiana",  
                'IA'=>"Iowa",  
                'KS'=>"Kansas",  
                'KY'=>"Kentucky",  
                'LA'=>"Louisiana",  
                'ME'=>"Maine",  
                'MD'=>"Maryland",  
                'MA'=>"Massachusetts",  
                'MI'=>"Michigan",  
                'MN'=>"Minnesota",  
                'MS'=>"Mississippi",  
                'MO'=>"Missouri",  
                'MT'=>"Montana",
                'NE'=>"Nebraska",
                'NV'=>"Nevada",
                'NH'=>"New Hampshire",
                'NJ'=>"New Jersey",
                'NM'=>"New Mexico",
                'NY'=>"New York",
                'NC'=>"North Carolina",
                'ND'=>"North Dakota",
                'OH'=>"Ohio",  
                'OK'=>"Oklahoma",  
                'OR'=>"Oregon",  
                'PA'=>"Pennsylvania",  
                'RI'=>"Rhode Island",  
                'SC'=>"South Carolina",  
                'SD'=>"South Dakota",
                'TN'=>"Tennessee",  
                'TX'=>"Texas",  
                'UT'=>"Utah",  
                'VT'=>"Vermont",  
                'VA'=>"Virginia",  
                'WA'=>"Washington",  
                'WV'=>"West Virginia",  
                'WI'=>"Wisconsin",  
                'WY'=>"Wyoming"
    );
function listUSStates($state_values,$dropdown_name,$key_selected) { 

    $string="<select name=\"".$dropdown_name."\">\n"; 
    if (!empty($state_values)) { 
        if ($key_selected=="" || !isset($key_selected)) { 
            $string.="<option value=\"\">Please select</option>\n"; 
        } 
        foreach($state_values as $state_short=>$state_full) { 
            if ($key_selected!="" && $key_selected==$state_short) { 
                $additional=" SELECTED"; 
            } 
            else { 
                $additional=""; 
            } 
                $string.="<option value=\"".$state_short."\"".$additional.">".$state_full."</option>\n"; 
        } 
    } 
    $string.="</select>\n"; 
    return $string; 
}
/**
 * 
 * DONT CHANGE ANYTHING ABOVE THIS LINE
 * 
 */








?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
    <meta name="author" content="" />

    <title>Example</title>
</head>

<body>

<h2>Select a State Example...</h2>
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">
<?php
$select_box_name = "roger";

if (isset($_POST['submit']))
    $key_selected=$_POST[$select_box_name];
echo listUSStates($state_values,$select_box_name,$key_selected);
?>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Go!" />
</form>

<?php
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
    $short_name = $_POST[$select_box_name];
    $long_name = $state_values[$short_name];
    echo "You selected ".$_POST[$select_box_name].", which is short for ".$long_name."";
}
?>
</body>
</html>
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php_Coda commented on Feb 12th 2011

Thank you! This is exactly what I wanted!

Eric commented on Dec 22nd 2010

Just what I needed. Great example!

FiveCodes commented on Dec 18th 2010

Thanks, works perfectly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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