How to display state abbreviation in admin customer orders instead of whole name?

[tj1]

Hi, I would like to display shipping and billing address in the orders details with the standard state abbreviation instead of the whole state name.

Does anyone know what I need to change? I think I have to edit something in the admin/orders.php file, I'm just not sure what.

Thanks.

[gl330k]

I would also like to know this as well. Can someone post a solution for this?

I'm running zc 1.3.7

thanks

[gl330k]

Ok. I have an update actually. Is it possible to simply store the state value as the two-letter abbrev in the db? It doesn't matter what it looks like in the drop-down menu we just need the value in the db table to be AL instead of Alabama (for example).

If anyone knows a way how to do this please let me know.

thanks

[smap]

It's stored in the zones table as both full name (zones.zone_name) and abbreviation (zones.zone_code).

[TimonSK]

[FONT=Comic Sans MS]OK, I'm probably missing something that is right in front of me.... This post seems to be asking what I'm looking for, but I still need the answer.

I too want to list the state abbreviation instead of the state name on the Invoice and Packing Slip. Would someone tell me what file(s), table, etc. that I need to change to make this happen? I see that there is a zone_code field that has the data I want displayed, but I don't know how/where to tell it to display.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

~Sharon[/FONT]

[Ajeh]

The address is built with the function zen_address_format ...

You would have to either customize that or, what I would do is add a paramater to the function that only the invoice and packing files pass to it as true and alter the way the state is displayed so not to mess up other things ...

[TimonSK]

I'm definitely a baby zenner. Would you guide me more specifically?

The address is built with the function zen_address_format ...

Where is that function?

I would do is add a paramater to the function that only the invoice and packing files pass to it as true and alter the way the state is displayed so not to mess up other things ...

I know it is in English, but I don't have a clue where to start if I were going to do this. What files, tables, etc. should I be looking at?

Thank you and I apologize for my lack of knowledge. I search for hours to see if someone else had this same question answered and may have missed that as well.

~Sharon

[TimonSK]

Thank you for your help Ajeh. I continued searching and found this post http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=57057 that seems to have done what I was wanting.

~Sharon