Question about a customer contact form

[jim.davidson]

I'm using Dreamweaver 8, mySQL 4.1.21, and PHP

 

Here's my question:

 

On a form that collects cutomer info, under the address I have a list menu of the states.  Customer selects their state and I store abbreviation to my table.

 

This all works fine, now what do I do if I get a potenial customer from another country.

 

Maybe they use state in their address, maybe not, or worse their state would have an abbreviation larger then 2 characters or have to be spelled out.

 

How can I get around this and still have the menu for U.S. customers?

 

Thanks

[cmgmyr]

You can always use "other" as a choice in addition to the states, if they pick that you can use some javascript to show a text box where they can enter in something else.

[jim.davidson]

I thought about the 'other' option, but if I use that what happens to my table? I'm thinking I'd have to increase the size of states field from the current 2 to something like 50.  Plus I'm like Sgt. Shultz on Hogan's Heros when it come to JavaScrpt "I know nothing".