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Ever needed to create a dropdown (<select>
) of British counties? It's a proper pain in you-know-what. Below, is a PHP array compatible with Laravel's Form::select()
.
The output of this will be a dropdown with countied grouped into countries.
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<?php
$counties => array(
"England" => array(
"avon" => "Avon",
"bedfordshire" => "Bedfordshire",
"berkshire" => "Berkshire",
"buckinghamshire" => "Buckinghamshire",
"cambridgeshire" => "Cambridgeshire",
"cheshire" => "Cheshire",
"cleveland" => "Cleveland",
"cornwall" => "Cornwall",
"cumbria" => "Cumbria",
"derbyshire" => "Derbyshire",
"devon" => "Devon",
"dorset" => "Dorset",
"durham" => "Durham",
"east sussex" => "East Sussex",
"essex" => "Essex",
"gloucestershire" => "Gloucestershire",
"hampshire" => "Hampshire",
"herefordshire" => "Herefordshire",
"hertfordshire" => "Hertfordshire",
"isle of wight" => "Isle of Wight",
"kent" => "Kent",
"lancashire" => "Lancashire",
"leicestershire" => "Leicestershire",
"lincolnshire" => "Lincolnshire",
"london" => "London",
"merseyside" => "Merseyside",
"middlesex" => "Middlesex",
"norfolk" => "Norfolk",
"northamptonshire" => "Northamptonshire",
"northumberland" => "Northumberland",
"north humberside" => "North Humberside",
"north yorkshire" => "North Yorkshire",
"nottinghamshire" => "Nottinghamshire",
"oxfordshire" => "Oxfordshire",
"rutland" => "Rutland",
"shropshire" => "Shropshire",
"somerset" => "Somerset",
"south humberside" => "South Humberside",
"south yorkshire" => "South Yorkshire",
"staffordshire" => "Staffordshire",
"suffolk" => "Suffolk",
"surrey" => "Surrey",
"tyne and wear" => "Tyne and Wear",
"warwickshire" => "Warwickshire",
"west midlands" => "West Midlands",
"west sussex" => "West Sussex",
"west yorkshire" => "West Yorkshire",
"wiltshire" => "Wiltshire",
"worcestershire" => "Worcestershire"
),
"Wales" => array(
"clwyd" => "Clwyd",
"dyfed" => "Dyfed",
"gwent" => "Gwent",
"gwynedd" => "Gwynedd",
"mid glamorgan" => "Mid Glamorgan",
"powys" => "Powys",
"south glamorgan" => "South Glamorgan",
"west glamorgan" => "West Glamorgan"
),
"Scotland" => array(
"aberdeenshire" => "Aberdeenshire",
"angus" => "Angus",
"argyll" => "Argyll",
"ayrshire" => "Ayrshire",
"banffshire" => "Banffshire",
"berwickshire" => "Berwickshire",
"bute" => "Bute",
"caithness" => "Caithness",
"clackmannanshire" => "Clackmannanshire",
"dumfriesshire" => "Dumfriesshire",
"dunbartonshire" => "Dunbartonshire",
"east lothian" => "East Lothian",
"fife" => "Fife",
"inverness-shire" => "Inverness-shire",
"kincardineshire" => "Kincardineshire",
"kinross-shire" => "Kinross-shire",
"kirkcudbrightshire" => "Kirkcudbrightshire",
"lanarkshire" => "Lanarkshire",
"midlothian" => "Midlothian",
"moray" => "Moray",
"nairnshire" => "Nairnshire",
"orkney" => "Orkney",
"peeblesshire" => "Peeblesshire",
"perthshire" => "Perthshire",
"renfrewshire" => "Renfrewshire",
"ross-shire" => "Ross-shire",
"roxburghshire" => "Roxburghshire",
"selkirkshire" => "Selkirkshire",
"shetland" => "Shetland",
"stirlingshire" => "Stirlingshire",
"sutherland" => "Sutherland",
"west lothian" => "West Lothian",
"wigtownshire" => "Wigtownshire"
),
"Northern Ireland" => array(
"antrim" => "Antrim",
"armagh" => "Armagh",
"down" => "Down",
"fermanagh" => "Fermanagh",
"londonderry" => "Londonderry",
"tyrone" => "Tyrone"
)
);
This list is based on the wonderful list provided by carronmedia.com (which is, in turn based on this Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_counties_of_the_United_Kingdom).
I hope this helps.