States for other countries

[cenourinha]

I see that you have some arrays with the states of specific countries hardcoded on the file "assets/js/StatesDropdown.js". Would it possible for WHMCS to read that information from a separated file (for example resources/country/dist.countries-states.json) and allow us to create a /resources/country/countries-states.json with custom States for each country?

[brian!]

21 hours ago, cenourinha said:

Would it possible for WHMCS to read that information from a separated file (for example resources/country/dist.countries-states.json) and allow us to create a /resources/country/countries-states.json with custom States for each country?

I dislike "is it possible" questions as the answer is almost always yes in theory - it's just whether it's worth the effort. 🙂

I can't see an obvious way to do it without editing statesdropdown.js to add the custom code to read the external array - and if you're going to do that, you might as well just edit the arrays directly... yeah I know they'll get overwritten by an update, and there will have been 4 of them in the last 4 weeks, but after next week, I doubt there will be another release this year... so just a case of keeping your custom file backed up (or at least the arrays part of it).

don't get me wrong, I see your idea as a good one, and it's been mentioned here previously since WHMCS introduced customising the countries list, but I don't even think anyone has made a formal feature request for it - not that they would matter, as there are many requests to add the states/counties within country x to the array, which even though they would just be a copy & paste, and a quick verification check, haven't been completed.