Question about cities...

[EnergyFreak +]

What version of 68 Classifieds are you running?
Example: V4.1.6 Designer

What template are you using?

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Please describe in detail the issue you are having:

Hi,

I have a question about cities. If a user for example writes in a city on his profile that does not make sense or with spelling errors. For example Montreal, montreal, montr�al, Montr�al, Montreeal, etc... I think all of these will become available on the search when searching by cities... I would like to avoid that, is there a way for the person to either choose from a list I give or a way to check for a valid address and make the necessary corrections.

Let me know what you think.

[Lhotch +]

You could edit the template and change the test field to a dropdown list consisting of entries you put in to force them to chose.

[EnergyFreak +]

How can I edit the user registration fields? I would replace an extra field with a list of cities, therefore I could just remove the check on the city field where the user can write his city with the new one. I read some documentation but none of it says I can modify the custom field to give it what I want, except give it a title.

Any ideas?

[EnergyFreak +]

Originally Posted by Lhotch

You could edit the template and change the test field to a dropdown list consisting of entries you put in to force them to chose.

Not sure what you mean about editing the template and change the test field. Can you give me more details on that?

Thanks.

[Lhotch +]

Originally Posted by EnergyFreak

Not sure what you mean about editing the template and change the test field. Can you give me more details on that?

Thanks.

I meant test field.

The template are HTML, the ciry field is a text field, edit the template and change it to a dropdown field and and manually create a dropdown for all the states you want to allow.

[EnergyFreak +]

Originally Posted by Lhotch

I meant test field.

The template are HTML, the ciry field is a text field, edit the template and change it to a dropdown field and and manually create a dropdown for all the states you want to allow.

Oh cool, would you happen to know which template piece has this? I have never coded a drop down before, how should I do that? Unless there is an example of that for the country in the template. I'll start looking for it right away.

[Lhotch +]

look at the documentation link above the forum under common template changes and how to use the smarty debug console, it will allow you to see the templates in use on various pages.

As for making a dropdown, it basic html and the net is full of tutorials on all aspects of html/css.

[EnergyFreak +]

I think I found what I need to change, it is located in /templates/default/user/userjoin.tpl.

I do not want to screw anything up, can someone tell me what piece of code I must add and what I need to change to build a drop down?

Here is the code:

PHP Code:

<p class="{cycle values="row1,row2" advance=true}">
            <label for="city">{if $req_city=="Y"}<span class='required'>{$smarty.const.LANG_STAR}</span>{/if}{$smarty.const.LANG_USER_CITY}{$smarty.const.LANG_COLON}</label>
            <input {if $req_city=="Y"}class="required"{/if} name="city" type="text" id="city" value="{$city}" size="{$smarty.const.FIELD_SIZE}" />
        </p> 


Thanks.

[Mike-N-Tosh +]

HTML select tag

[EnergyFreak +]

Okay so if I understand correctly I replace the <input> tags with the <select> tags you linked to?

If it's only that then I can manage