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After i saw this snippet http://snipplr.com/view/33790/form-country-code-select-with-if-selected-test/ i wanted to make the code better :D
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  1. <?php
  2. $countries = array(
  3.   "AU" => "Australia",
  4.   "AF" => "Afghanistan",
  5.   "AL" => "Albania",
  6.   "DZ" => "Algeria",
  7.   "AS" => "American Samoa",
  8.   "AD" => "Andorra",
  9.   "AO" => "Angola",
  10.   "AI" => "Anguilla",
  11.   "AQ" => "Antarctica",
  12.   "AG" => "Antigua & Barbuda",
  13.   "AR" => "Argentina",
  14.   "AM" => "Armenia",
  15.   "AW" => "Aruba",
  16.   "AT" => "Austria",
  17.   "AZ" => "Azerbaijan",
  18.   "BS" => "Bahamas",
  19.   "BH" => "Bahrain",
  20.   "BD" => "Bangladesh",
  21.   "BB" => "Barbados",
  22.   "BY" => "Belarus",
  23.   "BE" => "Belgium",
  24.   "BZ" => "Belize",
  25.   "BJ" => "Benin",
  26.   "BM" => "Bermuda",
  27.   "BT" => "Bhutan",
  28.   "BO" => "Bolivia",
  29.   "BA" => "Bosnia/Hercegovina",
  30.   "BW" => "Botswana",
  31.   "BV" => "Bouvet Island",
  32.   "BR" => "Brazil",
  33.   "IO" => "British Indian Ocean Territory",
  34.   "BN" => "Brunei Darussalam",
  35.   "BG" => "Bulgaria",
  36.   "BF" => "Burkina Faso",
  37.   "BI" => "Burundi",
  38.   "KH" => "Cambodia",
  39.   "CM" => "Cameroon",
  40.   "CA" => "Canada",
  41.   "CV" => "Cape Verde",
  42.   "KY" => "Cayman Is",
  43.   "CF" => "Central African Republic",
  44.   "TD" => "Chad",
  45.   "CL" => "Chile",
  46.   "CN" => "China, People's Republic of",
  47.   "CX" => "Christmas Island",
  48.   "CC" => "Cocos Islands",
  49.   "CO" => "Colombia",
  50.   "KM" => "Comoros",
  51.   "CG" => "Congo",
  52.   "CD" => "Congo, Democratic Republic",
  53.   "CK" => "Cook Islands",
  54.   "CR" => "Costa Rica",
  55.   "CI" => "Cote d'Ivoire",
  56.   "HR" => "Croatia",
  57.   "CU" => "Cuba",
  58.   "CY" => "Cyprus",
  59.   "CZ" => "Czech Republic",
  60.   "DK" => "Denmark",
  61.   "DJ" => "Djibouti",
  62.   "DM" => "Dominica",
  63.   "DO" => "Dominican Republic",
  64.   "TP" => "East Timor",
  65.   "EC" => "Ecuador",
  66.   "EG" => "Egypt",
  67.   "SV" => "El Salvador",
  68.   "GQ" => "Equatorial Guinea",
  69.   "ER" => "Eritrea",
  70.   "EE" => "Estonia",
  71.   "ET" => "Ethiopia",
  72.   "FK" => "Falkland Islands",
  73.   "FO" => "Faroe Islands",
  74.   "FJ" => "Fiji",
  75.   "FI" => "Finland",
  76.   "FR" => "France",
  77.   "FX" => "France, Metropolitan",
  78.   "GF" => "French Guiana",
  79.   "PF" => "French Polynesia",
  80.   "TF" => "French South Territories",
  81.   "GA" => "Gabon",
  82.   "GM" => "Gambia",
  83.   "GE" => "Georgia",
  84.   "DE" => "Germany",
  85.   "GH" => "Ghana",
  86.   "GI" => "Gibraltar",
  87.   "GR" => "Greece",
  88.   "GL" => "Greenland",
  89.   "GD" => "Grenada",
  90.   "GP" => "Guadeloupe",
  91.   "GU" => "Guam",
  92.   "GT" => "Guatemala",
  93.   "GN" => "Guinea",
  94.   "GW" => "Guinea-Bissau",
  95.   "GY" => "Guyana",
  96.   "HT" => "Haiti",
  97.   "HM" => "Heard Island And Mcdonald Island",
  98.   "HN" => "Honduras",
  99.   "HK" => "Hong Kong",
  100.   "HU" => "Hungary",
  101.   "IS" => "Iceland",
  102.   "IN" => "India",
  103.   "ID" => "Indonesia",
  104.   "IR" => "Iran",
  105.   "IQ" => "Iraq",
  106.   "IE" => "Ireland",
  107.   "IL" => "Israel",
  108.   "IT" => "Italy",
  109.   "JM" => "Jamaica",
  110.   "JP" => "Japan",
  111.   "JT" => "Johnston Island",
  112.   "JO" => "Jordan",
  113.   "KZ" => "Kazakhstan",
  114.   "KE" => "Kenya",
  115.   "KI" => "Kiribati",
  116.   "KP" => "Korea, Democratic Peoples Republic",
  117.   "KR" => "Korea, Republic of",
  118.   "KW" => "Kuwait",
  119.   "KG" => "Kyrgyzstan",
  120.   "LA" => "Lao People's Democratic Republic",
  121.   "LV" => "Latvia",
  122.   "LB" => "Lebanon",
  123.   "LS" => "Lesotho",
  124.   "LR" => "Liberia",
  125.   "LY" => "Libyan Arab Jamahiriya",
  126.   "LI" => "Liechtenstein",
  127.   "LT" => "Lithuania",
  128.   "LU" => "Luxembourg",
  129.   "MO" => "Macau",
  130.   "MK" => "Macedonia",
  131.   "MG" => "Madagascar",
  132.   "MW" => "Malawi",
  133.   "MY" => "Malaysia",
  134.   "MV" => "Maldives",
  135.   "ML" => "Mali",
  136.   "MT" => "Malta",
  137.   "MH" => "Marshall Islands",
  138.   "MQ" => "Martinique",
  139.   "MR" => "Mauritania",
  140.   "MU" => "Mauritius",
  141.   "YT" => "Mayotte",
  142.   "MX" => "Mexico",
  143.   "FM" => "Micronesia",
  144.   "MD" => "Moldavia",
  145.   "MC" => "Monaco",
  146.   "MN" => "Mongolia",
  147.   "MS" => "Montserrat",
  148.   "MA" => "Morocco",
  149.   "MZ" => "Mozambique",
  150.   "MM" => "Union Of Myanmar",
  151.   "NA" => "Namibia",
  152.   "NR" => "Nauru Island",
  153.   "NP" => "Nepal",
  154.   "NL" => "Netherlands",
  155.   "AN" => "Netherlands Antilles",
  156.   "NC" => "New Caledonia",
  157.   "NZ" => "New Zealand",
  158.   "NI" => "Nicaragua",
  159.   "NE" => "Niger",
  160.   "NG" => "Nigeria",
  161.   "NU" => "Niue",
  162.   "NF" => "Norfolk Island",
  163.   "MP" => "Mariana Islands, Northern",
  164.   "NO" => "Norway",
  165.   "OM" => "Oman",
  166.   "PK" => "Pakistan",
  167.   "PW" => "Palau Islands",
  168.   "PS" => "Palestine",
  169.   "PA" => "Panama",
  170.   "PG" => "Papua New Guinea",
  171.   "PY" => "Paraguay",
  172.   "PE" => "Peru",
  173.   "PH" => "Philippines",
  174.   "PN" => "Pitcairn",
  175.   "PL" => "Poland",
  176.   "PT" => "Portugal",
  177.   "PR" => "Puerto Rico",
  178.   "QA" => "Qatar",
  179.   "RE" => "Reunion Island",
  180.   "RO" => "Romania",
  181.   "RU" => "Russian Federation",
  182.   "RW" => "Rwanda",
  183.   "WS" => "Samoa",
  184.   "SH" => "St Helena",
  185.   "KN" => "St Kitts & Nevis",
  186.   "LC" => "St Lucia",
  187.   "PM" => "St Pierre & Miquelon",
  188.   "VC" => "St Vincent",
  189.   "SM" => "San Marino",
  190.   "ST" => "Sao Tome & Principe",
  191.   "SA" => "Saudi Arabia",
  192.   "SN" => "Senegal",
  193.   "SC" => "Seychelles",
  194.   "SL" => "Sierra Leone",
  195.   "SG" => "Singapore",
  196.   "SK" => "Slovakia",
  197.   "SI" => "Slovenia",
  198.   "SB" => "Solomon Islands",
  199.   "SO" => "Somalia",
  200.   "ZA" => "South Africa",
  201.   "GS" => "South Georgia and South Sandwich",
  202.   "ES" => "Spain",
  203.   "LK" => "Sri Lanka",
  204.   "XX" => "Stateless Persons",
  205.   "SD" => "Sudan",
  206.   "SR" => "Suriname",
  207.   "SJ" => "Svalbard and Jan Mayen",
  208.   "SZ" => "Swaziland",
  209.   "SE" => "Sweden",
  210.   "CH" => "Switzerland",
  211.   "SY" => "Syrian Arab Republic",
  212.   "TW" => "Taiwan, Republic of China",
  213.   "TJ" => "Tajikistan",
  214.   "TZ" => "Tanzania",
  215.   "TH" => "Thailand",
  216.   "TL" => "Timor Leste",
  217.   "TG" => "Togo",
  218.   "TK" => "Tokelau",
  219.   "TO" => "Tonga",
  220.   "TT" => "Trinidad & Tobago",
  221.   "TN" => "Tunisia",
  222.   "TR" => "Turkey",
  223.   "TM" => "Turkmenistan",
  224.   "TC" => "Turks And Caicos Islands",
  225.   "TV" => "Tuvalu",
  226.   "UG" => "Uganda",
  227.   "UA" => "Ukraine",
  228.   "AE" => "United Arab Emirates",
  229.   "GB" => "United Kingdom",
  230.   "UM" => "US Minor Outlying Islands",
  231.   "US" => "USA",
  232.   "HV" => "Upper Volta",
  233.   "UY" => "Uruguay",
  234.   "UZ" => "Uzbekistan",
  235.   "VU" => "Vanuatu",
  236.   "VA" => "Vatican City State",
  237.   "VE" => "Venezuela",
  238.   "VN" => "Vietnam",
  239.   "VG" => "Virgin Islands (British)",
  240.   "VI" => "Virgin Islands (US)",
  241.   "WF" => "Wallis And Futuna Islands",
  242.   "EH" => "Western Sahara",
  243.   "YE" => "Yemen Arab Rep.",
  244.   "YD" => "Yemen Democratic",
  245.   "YU" => "Yugoslavia",
  246.   "ZR" => "Zaire",
  247.   "ZM" => "Zambia",
  248.   "ZW" => "Zimbabwe"
  249. );
  250.  
  251. $selected = ' selected="selected"';
  252. $_country = NULL;
  253. if ( isset($_GET['country']) ) {
  254.     $_country = isset($countries[$_GET['country']]) ? $_GET['country'] : NULL;
  255. }
  256.  
  257. echo "<select name=\"country\">";
  258. echo "<option>--- Please select your country --- </option>\n";
  259. foreach ( $countries as $code => $country ) {
  260.     echo "<option value=\"$code\"";
  261.     if ( $_country == $code ) {
  262.     echo $selected;
  263.     }
  264.     echo ">$country</option>\n";
  265. }
  266. echo "</select>";
  267. ?>

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