states in Designer or Developer?

[island1 +]

In the user registration form the state default text is: STATE (non U.S.). Is this in a location locked out for designers? Because I can't find the code and I have Canadian Provinces too and it doesnt make sense.

[Eric Barnes]

That would be in the language file. language/english.php

[island1 +]

thanks eric

[petey]

I get the same issue. I don't understand the "solution" given above.

(v4.0.9 Developer)

[Mike-N-Tosh +]

Originally Posted by petey

I get the same issue. I don't understand the "solution" given above.

(v4.0.9 Developer)

The text shown, "STATE (non U.S.)" comes from the language file. You can edit this by editing your language file.

yoursite/language/english.php (or whatever language you are using).

-Mike

[Lhotch +]

all through the templates you will see smarty variables and constants. These are identifiable by the curly brackets surrounding them ie...{}

In the case of the term "STATE (non U.S.)" that is a constant that is defined in the language file and you can change the text you want displayed by locating it and altering it in the file /languages/english.php

[petey]

How do I allow people from USA (95% visitors) AND Canada to register? The other countries are not as critical.

At the moment it's locked on provinces only.

I looked in admin/settings and just see a list of provinces. So do I need to manually edit the file you mentioned or go through the admin or both?

Thanks.

[Lhotch +]

Originally Posted by petey

How do I allow people from USA (95% visitors) AND Canada to register? The other countries are not as critical.

At the moment it's locked on provinces only.

I looked in admin/settings and just see a list of provinces. So do I need to manually edit the file you mentioned or go through the admin or both?

Thanks.

Now you totally lost me.

If you log into admin, click on "settings" and then on the submenu "settings" again you hsould have a list of various settings you can change.

Down near the bottom you have an option to "edit states",

When you click on that you will have a default list of states. You can delete them, modify them or add to them but these are the options that will appear in your dropdown.

The exception to this is the default option "STATE (non U.S.)" which the text for is in the language file.

[petey]

I'm lost too.

I have a brand new installation and in admin/settings/states there's just a list of provinces.

Where are all the states? I did manage to change the default drop down for select state to "Select State..." in the template, but I'm still sitting here with just a list of provinces in the admin/settings/states which seems weird.

Thanks.

[seymourjames +]

This was installed with location Canada as your registration details were in Canada.

It is a good point as well that this should perhaps be detailed on the install that the choice of locality is going to do this (if you want U.S states listed then choose U.S for the location). In addition, the question will now go into our installation process so assumptions are not made.

However not to worry, while you were finishing your second post here we just flicked a switch in your database so your system covers the U.S (all the states should now be showing fine).

We hope that was a fast enough service.