[thelist] U.S. Cities
Dena Marchant
dmarchand at verizon.net
Thu Aug 11 16:48:23 CDT 2005
How do you know Moscow Idaho :-)
I'm working on a ticket sales website. Producers of the shows will add
their
productions through a web form. I want to put these cities in a db table.
If I let users
enter the city, state, zip, there are bound to be misspellings. If I give
the user a series
of pulldowns, then how do I get all of the cities. Any combination of these
has problems.
Perhaps they could enter a zip code and somehow I could use that to give
them a city
which they would ok or not.
Hope that clarifies a bit. Thanks
Dena
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Heilmann" <codepo8 at gmail.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: [thelist] U.S. Cities
On 8/11/05, Dena Marchant <dmarchand at verizon.net> wrote:
> Does anyone have suggestions on how to ensure that cities entered
> into a database through a web form will be:
>
> 1. spelled correctly
> 2. valid
> 3. not duplicates
>
> I'm wondering if there is a service that can take a string that is the
> name of
> a city and tell you whether it is valid?
>
> These will only be cities in the United States.
Like Sebastopol, Moscow / Idaho, Berlin or Amsterdam? :-)
You can check ZIP Codes, but I doubt that there is a Thesaurus for city
names.
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