Dropdown Country List with Code Igniter and Zend Framework

Note: This assumes you are using Code Igniter, have loaded the form helper, and have followed this guide to integrating Zend Framework with CodeIgniter.

This was so easy that it was scary!

public function country_list($field_name="country",$selected="US")
{
$this->load->library('zend');
$this->zend->load('Zend/Locale');
$locale = new Zend_Locale('en_US');
$countries = ($locale->getTranslationList('Territory','en',2));
asort($countries,SORT_LOCALE_STRING);

return form_dropdown($field_name,$countries,$selected);
}

This returns a nice list of countries with the 2-letter codes as the option values.

Posted by nerdmom on October 29, 2008

https://nerdmom.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/dropdown-country-list-with-code-igniter-and-zend-framework/