WC&DC Which Countries and Default Country

[michael_s]

WC&DC Which Countries and Default Country
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Sure we all want to go global but starting up a web shop is difficult enough without having to worry about: accepting payment from, creating customs forms for, and shipping to many international countries. This is a simple hack to reduce the number of countries that you sell to but allow you to add them back very easily in the future.

It creates a new show_country field in the countries table in your database to indicate whether or not the country should be listed in your country drop down lists. Then the code that creates that drop down list is edited to look at this field.

Optionally you can also tweak the default country that shows up in the drop down list via another simple hack that tweaks the code that displays the country drop down list.

Based upon the following tips and tricks thread:
http://forums.oscommerce.com/index.php?showtopic=85405

Support thread/forum:
http://forums.oscommerce.com/index.php?showtopic=263723

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