[thelist] Address entry

Paul Bennett Paul.Bennett at wcc.govt.nz
Thu Oct 26 15:23:45 CDT 2006


Hi Bill,

As a New Zealander, I welcome you creating an International option for your application! :)

Could you add an 'outside of the US' option to your state dropdown? For this option you could then automagically make a 'country' input box appear. Also - if the user is outside the US please don't mandate a zip / area code - not all countries have or need them - NZ only implemented area codes this year (!).

My 2c
Paul

 

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From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Bill Moseley
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 5:42 AM
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Subject: [thelist] Address entry

I updated a site for a client and one part of that is a form where
people enter their billing address.  This data is important as bills
are sent by mail.  The previous form was a free-form entry and as such
the old data had a large number of data entry errors and
inconsistencies.

So, after discussion with the client, and the client insisting that
only US addresses would need to be entered, I used a drop down list
for state and I have an AJAX request on the zip code that will lookup
the city and state based on the zip code.

Of course, now they have a user with a Canadian address.

It's still very rare to have a non-US address -- 1 in 30,000 at this
point ;)

So, I'm looking for examples of forms where I can still use the
stronger validation on US zip codes, but also provide a way to allow
non-US users to enter an address.

Suggestions?




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moseley at hank.org

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