[Solar-talk] Country list

[Paul M Jones]

On Oct 17, 2006, at 4:35 PM, Antti Holvikari wrote:

> On 10/18/06, Paul M Jones <pmjones at ciaweb.net> wrote:
>> On Oct 17, 2006, at 4:21 PM, Antti Holvikari wrote:
>>
>>> I need to store a list of countrys somewhere so that I can access it
>>> almost from everywhere. It should be in the form of:
>>>
>>> array(
>>>     'FI' => 'Finland',
>>>     ....
>>> );
>>>
>>> Where do you think I should store it?
>>
>> Seems like it'd be perfect as Solar/Locale/xx_XX.php array entries.
>> I wonder if the code should be prefixed; e.g.,  'COUNTRY_FI' =>
>> 'Finland' ?
>>
>>
>>> Ps. Do you know where I could copy&paste a country list?
>>
>> This seems authoritative:
>>
>> http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-
>> lists/list-en1.html
>
> But how will I fetch the whole list then? :-)

Hm, that's a good question.  :-(



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