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Pls programmers i'm developing a form that need to display all countries, state and city in nigeria into a dropdownlist using php. Pls i need the code and explain how it is achieve. Thanks

I think this should help

<?php

$state = "Abuja,Anambra,Enugu,Akwa Ibom,Adamawa,Abia,Bauchi,Bayelsa,Benue,Borno,Cross River,Delta,Ebonyi,Edo,Ekiti,Gombe,Imo,Jigawa,Kaduna,Kano,Katsina,Kebbi,Kogi,Kwara,Lagos,Nasarawa,Niger,Ogun,Ondo,Osun,Oyo,Plateau,Rivers,Sokoto,Taraba,Yobe,Zamfara"


$city = "Aba,Abakaliki,Abeokuta,Abuja,Akure,Asaba,Anambra,Atlanta,Awka,Bauchi,Benin City,Birnin Kebbi,Calabar,Dutse,Eket,Enugu,Gombe,Gusau,Ibadan,Ife,Ikeja,Ikot-Abasi,Ikot Ekpene,Ikoyi,Ilorin,Jalingo,Jimeta,Jos,Kaduna,Kano,Katsina,Karu,Kumariya,Lafia,Lagos,Lokoja,Maiduguri,Makurdi,Minna,Nsukka,Ogbomoso,Onitsha,Oron,Oshogbo,Owerri,Owo,Oyo,Port Harcourt,Potiskum,Sokoto,Suleja,Umuahia,Uyo,Warri,Wukari,Yenagoa,Yola,Zaria";


/*
Function to format an array into a <select> tag

@param: $arr - The array to be converted.
@param: $field - The attribute name of the <select> tag

Usage: <form>
...
...
FormatSelect( $state, "State" );
...
FormatSelect( $city, "City" );
...
</form>

Prototype: String FormatSelect( Array $arr, String $field )
*/

function FormatSelect( $arr, $field ) {

$options = explode( ",", $arr );

$selectTag = '<select name="' .$field. '">';

foreach( $options as $key => $option ) {

$selectTag .= '<option value="'.$option.'">'. $option .'</option>' . "\n";
}

$selectTag .= '</select>';

return $selectTag;

}

?>