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Paypal Standard: Country Code - 2 letter or 3 letter?

tektraveler

Posted: 26 July 2010 03:15 AM

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Hi there,

I have seen in the Paypal Standard examples the note that PayPal needs 2 letter country codes. Based on this, early on I made sure that every country dropdown list I have uses 2 letter codes.

I now want to show the full country name for billing and shipping address on the confirmation page and email notification for admins.

I found:


{exp:cartthrob:view_country_name country_code="{customer_country_code}"}

But it needs a three letter code in order to look up the full country name. Now I am thinking it was a mistake to make all the country codes 2 letter. I did just notice in this post that you’ve have added a module to convert 3 letter to 2 letter for the gateways that need it.

So, maybe you can give me a little guidance - should I be using 3 letter codes or 2 letter codes? If I use 3 letter codes, how do I make sure PayPal will be sent the 2 letter code they need?

I am fine with 2 letter codes all the way as I use reegion_select from Derek Hogue in other areas of the site - but I need a way to use view_country_name with 2 letter codes. But if 3 letter is better for CT then no problem, its fairly easy to change to 3 letters at this point if PayPal Standard will be OK with it somehow.

Thanks for all your help.
Tek

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tektraveler

Posted: 26 July 2010 03:30 AM

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Just found the following in the PayPal Standard gateway…

'country'                => $this->_get_alpha2_country_code($customer_info['country_code']), 

So I think I have my answer - use 3 letter codes and the PayPal gateway will turn it into 2 letters.

Let me know if I should be doing something else.

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Chris Newton

Posted: 26 July 2010 11:37 AM

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Yes. It will turn it into the 2 letter country code automatically.

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