Hi

I've needed to do a lot of work on this plugin to make it usable on my site.

Major problem - your regex for validating does not allow entries with "," or "(" or ")". So validating "Myanmar (Burma)" or "Congo, Democratic Republic of" could never happen. I only found out because a user could not register with "France (Metropolitan)"

Unfortunately, many of the country names were incomplete (missing the last few letters) in the javascript. Actually, this was carried over from the original javascript that you've worked from here

I'm afraid that the listings for the UK/GB were a bit weird (mix of counties and cities) so I've edited those too.

I have to say that I'm quite disappointed seeing as I produce free software for people and this cost $5... Posting here prior to JED to give you a heads up and find out what you think...

Oh, and I forgot that all the entries in the states.js that contain " like GB:"Bristol: City of":"Bristol: City of"|\ do not parse properly so I've needed to edit all those too.

I for one, would have emailed the author with my fixes in a collaborative effort to get things right, even if I did pay $5.

I have had others contribute translations and ideas for upcoming features and as a thank you I have refunded their purchases.

I'm even happy to refund yours (Just use the contact form on the site).

At the end of the day I'm not going to be able to please everyone all the time.

I know there's a problem with the validation routine because it was discovered during another support request. This has been corrected and scheduled to be included into the next release which will bring the plugin out of the Release Candidate Status.

We've also identified some Country name problems now that we've started work on expanding the plugin to include a city field as well. As you probably know there are very few countries that have "States" in the true sense of the word. Our next major release will distinguish, a state from a region, province, county etc....

As for a specific problem with mixing UK countries with States I was not aware. Thank you for pointing it out. I will look into it.

Hi

Just Reading this back I realise it sounds a little antagonistic. Sorry about that - just 3 hours I didn't want to spend fixing something on the middle of the night. Put it down to new baby tiredness. Sorry! I suppose what I'm getting at is that a fee makes something appear finished when this is still a work in progress. in any case, of course I'm not asking for a refund - it has still saved me time in the long run.

I'm happy to share any of the edits I've made. The regex I'm now using has simply added ,\(\) to the punctuation part of the character class regex. I think you can solve the other poster's problem with accented characters by using the UTF-8 switch. I'm not at my computer but from memory it would be something like '#[A-Za-z ,\(\)-]#u'

I've added the flags and island countries/dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Isle of Man. I reordered the GB list into alpha cities/regions, taking out the big counties. UK was added in with the official UK counties (+Greater London). All " have been removed and truncated country names expanded.

I can email/post my updated version which has already done some of the city/region work for the UK as well as the above fixes.

well congrats on the new arrival. I have 2 of my own ( a 4 yr old and a 2 yr old ) and I still have sleepness nights and very long days but I wouldn't have it any other way

thanks for the regex update. Theoretically it should work as you've stated but I found it not to be the case on a number of my test machines. I believe it has something to do with how php is compiled. Nevertherless I think I have a working solution for the interim which I have posted.

As for the offer to email the updates you already know my answer
You can email me directly at: support at mydomain