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POCountry drop down list output to view
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    copied!<p>I have a Country list helper implemented just fine and can select quite happily.</p> <p>The one thing I am trying to work out now is how to output the selected country to view...</p> <p>Sample of the helper:</p> <pre><code>class CountryListHelper extends FormHelper { var $helpers = array('Form'); function select($fieldname) { $list = $this-&gt;Form-&gt;input($fieldname , array( 'type' =&gt; 'select', 'label' =&gt; 'Country of Residence', 'options' =&gt; array( '' =&gt; 'Please select a country', 'AF' =&gt; 'Afganistan', 'AL' =&gt; 'Albania', 'DZ' =&gt; 'Algeria', 'AS' =&gt; 'American Samoa', 'AD' =&gt; 'Andorra', 'AO' =&gt; 'Angola', 'AI' =&gt; 'Anguilla', 'AQ' =&gt; 'Antarctica', </code></pre> <p>code in the edit and add view:</p> <pre><code>echo $this-&gt;CountryList-&gt;select('country'); </code></pre> <p>The data being stored is only the acronym (as shown in the helper code snippet) and this is what is being output to view.ctp (AF for example). Is there a way to do a retrieval from the helper to match the full country name to the acronym and push it to view.ctp?</p> <p>Snippet from view.ctp which I am trying to modify to display the full country name as apposed to just the acronym.</p> <pre><code>&lt;dt&lt;?php if ($i % 2 == 0) echo $class;?&gt;&gt;&lt;?php __('Country of Residence'); ?&gt;&lt;/dt&gt; &lt;dd&lt;?php if ($i++ % 2 == 0) echo $class;?&gt;&gt; &lt;?php echo $user['User']['country']; ?&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/dd&gt; </code></pre> <p>Many thanks in advance!</p>
 

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