jakebur01 Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 I am going to create a directory within my images directory called flags. This flags directory will contain little gif's of different countries. I am trying to figure out how I should name the images as I save them. Like I will be pulling the flag image based on the country name. But, I do not know how it will handle the spaces in the word. And how it would handle characters like this... Virgin Islands (British) ..... or commas Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic Of example // like sql ..... select statement while loop{ $image=$row[country]; (@file_exists('images/flags/'.($image).'.gif')) { echo '<td><img src=\'images/flags/'.$image.'.gif\' border=0 width=60 height=40> } { this is the way the countries look in the select form when they sign up.... so this is what they will look like in the db Afghanistan Åland Islands Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antarctica Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Bouvet Island Brazil British Indian Ocean territory Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Colombia Comoros Congo Congo, Democratic Republic Cook Islands Costa Rica Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Croatia (Hrvatska) Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic East Timor Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Falkland Islands Faroe Islands Fiji Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia French Southern Territories Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Heard and McDonald Islands Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Korea (north) Korea (south) Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Lao People's Democratic Republic Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macao Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic Of Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco MongoliaMontenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norfolk Island Northern Mariana Islands Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Palestinian Territories Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Pitcairn Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Réunion Romania Russian Federation Rwanda Saint Helena Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa San Marino Sao Tome and Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tokelau Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States of America Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City Venezuela Vietnam Virgin Islands (British) Virgin Islands (US) Wallis and Futuna Islands Western Sahara Yemen Zaire Zambia Zimbabwe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dt192 Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 well why dont you just filter out all non alphanumric characters then you would have no worries Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Put the countries into a database or even a flat file with numeric associations. Then, use the numbers as the value in your drop down. Then, just name the flags the number of the country. (Or you could use country codes like US or UK if you had a list.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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