Tim CarpenterThanks! I really appreciate your swift replies.
Quick questions:
First, unless you were adding states with their two letter abbr and in all caps, editing an entry, you have to select the correct state otherwise I think it’ll simply default to AL.
Does this mean that it will no be backwards compatible with past entries? We are entering all people with full state names, so Ohio instead of OH. Does this mean Ohio would become AL because Ohio is not a state abbreviation?
Second, when the states are actually displayed, they’ll be displayed with their abbr instead of the full name. Doing the opposite would require more changes in several areas of code.
We would certainly need full state names. We have region specific pages that are easy to access via navigation that rely on full state names. Also we opt to not use state abbreviations as search results are more reliable with full state names. It sounds like US_Regions() is set to return abbreviations only. You mention that it would require edits in a few places so I imagine that the US_Regions() method is not the only place requiring changes.
You have been a great help. I do not know if you provide custom editing at your hourly rate. I would feel more comfortable having you making these changes than myself as my PHP knowledge is limited. Let me know if this would be possible!