Determine action based on country

[mmcb]

Here's the problem I'm facing.
I have an order form where people enter in there shipping details, easy enough. But what I want to happen is determine the cost of shipping based on where the user is from (ie. the country they enter).

Something like this:
if (strtoupper($Country) == "USA") {
      $Shipping = '1.00';
} else {
      $Shipping = '2.00';
}

The problem is is that people will enter varying forms of the one country (USA, US, United States, United States of America, etc). So how could I check for all the variations of country to determine what the shipping amount should be.

Cheers,
MMCB

[corillo181]

if ((strtoupper($Country) == "USA") || (strtoupper($Country) == "US") || (strtoupper($Country) == "United States") )

[mmcb]

So basically listing out each and every possibility using if statements :o

[corillo181]

yeah the  || is = or so is saying if is usa or us or united to execute the code..

[Ninjakreborn]

There is a much easier way, and this would be very fun to put together.

Take a list of all the countries (take you 20 minutes)

$countries = array(//all countries with pricing) // Example: usa=>1.00, asia=>2.00
Whatever you get the point of that part.

Now when you get ready to find out, echo out only the states, in a
<select>
foreach your countries array here to display the countries
</select>
Based on which one is picked, check the array for the price of that one, adn do what you need with it.

[corillo181]

yeah i think he should give options aobut the countries.. becuase what he aske dfor it looks like he letting the costumer enter the country..

[Ninjakreborn]

In the end, it would be too wierd leaving it to the people. People put usa, Usa USA, USa US us
you never know.