Hi,

I have a dropdown selection box on the profile page for Country. Form names is a two letter abreviation and the form value is the full name.

If I try to access the setting - I will get the 2 letter abreviation from the Form Names - the questions is - how can I display the Form Value - ie the full name?

It may not be possible as the values are not stored in the database - but is there a way using a global or should I make a ton of if statements in the template?

This is similar to the problem raised in:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...orum.cgi?post=231672

Klaus

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You may use the form_names & form_values table property methods of GT::SQL::table. Check more info about it, in the LSQL GT Module Documentation. That would be a good startpoint.
I took the time and listed some code:
Now you have a %form_hash hash to convert form values.
Use:


Well I did not test this, but theoritically should work...
Play with it, and read the docs.

Hope that helps.

Best regards,
Webmaster33

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If you are only storing the abbreviation then there is no way to show the whole name without some custom coding.

You'd need some sort of mapping for abbreviation to full name, either as a hash or in a flatfile and then use a global to return the value.

eg...

<%load_full_country($country_abbrev)%>

Then in your global if you had a hash of countries/abbrev's you'd do:

Thanks Paul

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