Make USA appear first in countries list

[saikii]

Hi Everyone!

I am trying to customize my countries list so that it shows United States at the top. (Direct request from client)

I tried changing it's id in the database from 223 to 0, but that had no effect.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance

[Ajeh]

You do not want to change the id ... that would not be good ...

You can set a default on new accounts in the Configuration ... Customer Details ...

Create Account Default Country ID
Set Create Account Default Country ID to:
Default is 223

[saikii]

I changed the ID back to 223, thanks!

I need this functionality for for guests, however. Most of the custom forms on our site do not require registration to complete.

[Ajeh]

Have you an URL to something on your site where it is not defaulting to the United States?

This is the default with Zen Cart, btw ...

[saikii]

It's a variation on the normal zen cart function zen_get_country_list().

I could not get a return value other than the country id # to kick back when I used the normal function, so I copied it and changed it so it writes out the country name as a value for the <option> tag.

This part works great and it is almost exactly the same as the normal zen function, I just need USA to go to the top of the list.

[saikii]

In case anyone wants to know this (and it seems quite obvious now that I've had time to rummage around through the code) The function "zen_get_country_list()" has 3 parameters, the second of which corresponds to the default selected value for the list that is output.

Since I tweaked my function a bit, I simply passed 'United States' as the parameter and now that comes up as selected by default.