New plugin: REEgion Select

Hi D-Rock, excellent work. Would also be worth porting to Field Frame! 😊

Not a bad idea Nathan, I should give that a shot.

Hey D-rock - nice work. Converting to FieldFrame should be pretty easy - it’s quite straightforward. One thing though for this - it’d be a good idea to namespace your plugin using a unique prefix in case it clashes with some other one now or in the future.

Just thought I’d let everyone know that I finally got REEgion Select ported to FieldFrame, for those of you looking to use it via the back-end rather than on the front-end.

http://github.com/amphibian/reegion_select.ff_fieldtype/

Thanks for the solid start on the lists, D-Rock. I’m currently developing a site where I’ll need the client to select a state or country within an entry post, that will then be searchable through the same parameter (the 2 digit code) on the front end.

I just installed the FF back end version, but whenever an entry is saved, it defaults to the last list item. Do you know what this may be from? Any thoughts?

I also just noticed if I include the pre-populated list for the front end while having the FF back end fieldtype list setup for a custom field, it throws the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method Reegion_select::usage() in .../plugins/pi.reegion_select.php on line 9

Is one not meant to be used with the other? This is my first time working with these files, so I could very well be approaching it incorrectly. My thought process is if I were to select “Texas” for the entry’s state and publish it, I should just as well be able to search for Texas on the front end and have that entry display in a results page; in other words both plugin and fieldtype working together.

Can you point me in the right direction?

Thanks for catching those bugs, I appreciate it. I’ve just pushed version 1.0.1 to GitHub, which should fix both of these issues.

I had to rename the class to Reegion_select_ff to avoid the conflict with my REEgion Select plugin, which means the name of the fieldtype folder has changed as well. You’ll want to first remove the version 1.0 fieldtype, then upload the 1.0.1 version. You may have to revisit your custom field setting as well to choose REEgion Select again (but don’t worry - your existing entry data will remain unchanged.)

Let me know if the update sorts this out for you?

Hi D-Rock,

Great plugin, perfect for my ecommerce sites where I have to use ISO countries to pass to the payment gateways - many thanks.

Some additions needed for the UK Counties list: “West Midlands” - had a client complain as one of their customers from that county tried to purchase and couldn’t enter their address! “Sussex” isn’t actually a county, it’s two: “East Sussex” and “West Sussex” Like East and West Lothian.

Have added these in manually, but thought I should give you a heads up.

Another change request: I’ve got 2 ecommerce payment gateways that require a 3 digit country code based on ISO, so any chance the plugin could be modified to allow a choice in the back-end of which ISO standard is used for the list? I can provide a ready to use list of countries and 3 digits if it helps?

Thanks,

Peter

Thanks Peter, I’ll fix up those counties.

Re: adding ISO Alpha-3 - I’ll think on that. It’s a bit of an edge case, as it only applies to the country list and not the others.

Hey D-Rock,

Could you please add North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire to the UK Counties? Lincolnshire should still remain. :D

Thank you, Neil

Could you please add North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire to the UK Counties?

I don’t see these on the Wikipedia listing, nor the Association of British Counties list.

Looks like it’s a Borough, not a County?

I think that list is out of date, as it still lists Humberside and South Humberside which have not existed for a number of years. 😊 Probably based from the Postal Service list which still hasn’t updated to North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire.

Any chance you could find me an authoritative list (being a Brit yourself)? Being from Canada, I haven’t the foggiest idea what to look for as red flags indicating the currency of any particular list.

Sure. Some other changes would be to split up Yorkshire into; North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, East Yorkshire and West Yorkshire. :D