How do I remove the Country field from the Create Account Form?

[Shaunus]

Hi again.

Got one problem sorted out, now I have another challenge!

Can anyone please tell me how to remove the country field from the Create Account Form? I have figured out how to alter the field names, but I'm not sure how to remove a field?

We only ship within the UK, so the country field isn't required.

Thanks.

[LVT LTD]

I have made a country called UK and then added zones for England,Scotland etc...

you can then set it so that the country is UK by default

that solves the problem of people not being able to order because of country issues...

[schoolboy]

I had a similar challenge, but because a lot of UK shippers divide the UK into REGIONS, it helps to retain the FUNCTIONALITY of the "country" element.

What I did was this:

1. Change the LABEL (define) for "country" to "region".
2. Delete ALL Countries from the "countries" table in the database.
3. Add NEW "countries":-

• UK Mainland
• UK Scottish Highlands
• UK Scottish Islands
• UK Northern Ireland
• UK Islands
• UK Channel Islands

Then, to add the UK COUNTIES to these "regions", you need to add them as ZONES

EG:-

• UK Mainland
• - Avon
• - Bedfordshire
• - Berkshire
• - City of Bristol
• - Buckinghamshire
• - Cambridgeshire
• - Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely
• - Cheshire
• - Cleveland
• - Cornwall
• - Cumberland
• - Cumbria
• - Derbyshire
• - Devon
• - Dorset
• - Durham
• - East Suffolk
• - East Sussex
• - ... ETC
• UK Scottish Highlands
• - Caithness
• - Sutherland
• - Ross and Cromarty
• - Nairn
• - Invernesshire

... and so on for all REGIONS.

You will have to "invent" ISO 2 and 3 digit codes of your own, as there are no ISO codes of this kind for these "customized" countries. This will only be an issue if you use 3rd party shipping mods that call to a remote server (eg: fedEx, UPS) where the ISO is a key identifier.

I made all these changes via phpMyAdmin, using SQL commands to truncate the relevant tables and to insert new data.

if you use this method, then the following tables are relevant.

countries
geo_zones
zones
zones_to_geo_zones

See an example HERE
(Slightly different from above, but the same principle)

[schoolboy]

... and yes... LVT LTD is correct. You HAVE to retain the countries function because the checkout process is dependant on it... NO COUNTRIES = NO CHECKOUT POSSIBLE

PS: In my example site, you will also see that I have REVERSED the position / order of the REGIONS and COUNTY/PROVINCE fields...

... this enables the correct display of counties, dependant on the region selected.

[LVT LTD]

School boy can you please state the file and code used to reverse the fields?

I would love to do that...

[schoolboy]

School boy can you please state the file and code used to reverse the fields?

I would love to do that...

I'll make a note of this and get back to it.

PM me in a day or two to nudge me about this...