Abbreviate City Fields

Hi,

I would like to abbreviate the "City" field value so that when it is passed through with the mailchimp integration, it is "Fl" instead of "Florida" for example....

Thanks!

I just needed to do the same thing for a site I'm working on. If you use the advanced fields option where it automatically adds in all of the address fields then trying to modify the states dropdown doesn't work (at least I couldn't get it to). My solution requires modifying the core code of Gravity Forms but it's easy to do. I needed a form to work with PayPal which requires the state to be passed using the USPS official abbreviations if you want to prepopulate the billing info. fields. Here's how you do it.

1. Open up common.php in the Gravity Forms plugin folder.
2. At line 967 you'll find public static function get_us_states(
That's the part that sets up the values that show in the states drop down menu.
3. Right after it (after the } that ends that function) paste in the following:

public static function get_my_us_states(){
return array("Alabama"=>"AL","Alaska"=>"AK","Arizona"=>"AZ","Arkansas"=>"AR","California"=>"CA","Colorado"=>"CO","Connecticut"=>"CT","Delaware"=>"DE","District of Columbia"=>"DC","Florida"=>"FL","Georgia"=>"GA","Hawaii"=>"HI","Idaho"=>"ID","Illinois"=>"IL","Indiana"=>"IN","Iowa"=>"IA","Kansas"=>"KS","Kentucky"=>"KY","Louisiana"=>"LA","Maine"=>"ME","Maryland"=>"MD","Massachusetts"=>"MA","Michigan"=>"MI","Minnesota"=>"MN","Mississippi"=>"MS","Missouri"=>"MO","Montana"=> "MT","Nebraska"=>"NE","Nevada"=>"NV","New Hampshire"=>"NH","New Jersey"=>"NJ","New Mexico"=>"NM","New York"=>"NY","North Carolina"=>"NC","North Dakota"=>"ND","Ohio"=>"OH","Oklahoma"=>"OK","Oregon"=>"OR","Pennsylvania"=>"PA","Rhode Island"=>"RI","South Carolina"=>"SC","South Dakota"=>"SD","Tennessee"=>"TN","Texas"=>"TX","Utah"=>"UT","Vermont"=>"VT","Virginia"=>"VA","Washington"=>"WA","West Virginia"=>"WV","Wisconsin"=>"WI","Wyoming"=>"WY");
}

4. Just a bit below that you'll see the following code: public static function get_us_state_dropdown(
Change the name of that function to get_us_state_dropdown_old

5. Paste in the following code below it:

public static function get_us_state_dropdown($selected_state = ""){
$states = self::get_my_us_states();
foreach($states as $state => $abbr ){
$selected = $abbr == $selected_state ? "selected='selected'" : "";
$str .= "<option value='" . esc_attr($abbr) . "' $selected>" . $state . "</option>";
}
return $str;
} return $str;
}

Voila, your address fields now have the full name of the state showing in the drop down but use the postal abbreviation for the value.

Please note that this will be the case for all forms you create in the future. If you want to go back to the stock values, simply rename the new function to _old and remove the _old from the original function. Also note that the state abbreviation is what will be stored in the database -- which works great for my needs but might not be what you want.

Cheers!

Great stuff, worked perfectly! Thanks for your help, much appreciated!

Here we go. I created a custom programing plugin and added this to it which will convert the long name to short name before it is posted/emailed.

[php]
<?php
  /*
    Plugin Name: Custom Programming
    Plugin URI: http://www.example.com/
    Description: Plugin for altering gForms state data
    Author: Matthew Connerton
    Version: 1.0
    Author URI: http://www.example.com/
  */
add_action("gform_pre_submission", "pre_submission_state_handler");
function pre_submission_state_handler($form_meta){
    foreach($form_meta["fields"] as $field){
      if($field['type'] == "address"){
         foreach($field["inputs"] as $input){
            if($input['label'] == "State / Province"){
              $value = $_POST["input_" . str_replace('.', '_', $input["id"])];
              $_POST["input_" . str_replace('.', '_', $input["id"])] = shortenState($value);
            }
        }
      }
    }
  }
function shortenState($state){
    if(strlen($state) == 2){
      $newState = $state;
    }else{
      $state = ucwords(strtolower($state));
      switch($state){
        case "District of Columbia":
          $newState = "DC";
          break;
        case "Alaska":
          $newState = "AK";
          break;
        case "Alabama":
          $newState = "AL";
          break;
        case "Arkansas":
          $newState = "AR";
          break;
        case "Arizona":
          $newState = "AZ";
          break;
        case "California":
          $newState = "CA";
          break;
        case "Colorado":
          $newState = "CO";
          break;
        case "Connecticut":
          $newState = "CT";
          break;
        case "Delaware":
          $newState = "DE";
          break;
        case "Florida":
          $newState = "FL";
          break;
        case "Georgia":
          $newState = "GA";
          break;
        case "Hawaii":
          $newState = "HI";
          break;
        case "Iowa":
          $newState = "IA";
          break;
        case "Idaho":
          $newState = "ID";
          break;
        case "Illinois":
          $newState = "IL";
          break;
        case "Indiana":
          $newState = "IN";
          break;
        case "Kansas":
          $newState = "KS";
          break;
        case "Kentucky":
          $newState = "KY";
          break;
        case "Louisiana":
          $newState = "LA";
          break;
        case "Massachusetts":
          $newState = "MA";
          break;
        case "Maryland":
          $newState = "MD";
          break;
        case "Maine":
          $newState = "ME";
          break;
        case "Michigan":
          $newState = "MI";
          break;
        case "Minnesota":
          $newState = "MN";
          break;
        case "Missouri":
          $newState = "MO";
          break;
        case "Mississippi":
          $newState = "MS";
          break;
        case "Montana":
          $newState = "MT";
          break;
        case "North Carolina":
          $newState = "NC";
          break;
        case "North Dakota":
          $newState = "ND";
          break;
        case "Nebraska":
          $newState = "NE";
          break;
        case "New Hampshire":
          $newState = "NH";
          break;
        case "New Jersey":
          $newState = "NJ";
          break;
        case "New Mexico":
          $newState = "NM";
          break;
        case "Nevada":
          $newState = "NV";
          break;
        case "New York":
          $newState = "NY";
          break;
        case "Ohio":
          $newState = "OH";
          break;
        case "Oklahoma":
          $newState = "OK";
          break;
        case "Oregon":
          $newState = "OR";
          break;
        case "Pennsylvania":
          $newState = "PA";
          break;
        case "Rhode Island":
          $newState = "RI";
          break;
        case "South Carolina":
          $newState = "SC";
          break;
        case "South Dakota":
          $newState = "SD";
          break;
        case "Tennessee":
          $newState = "TN";
          break;
        case "Texas":
          $newState = "TX";
          break;
        case "Utah":
          $newState = "UT";
          break;
        case "Virginia":
          $newState = "VA";
          break;
        case "Vermont":
          $newState = "VT";
          break;
        case "Washington":
          $newState = "WA";
          break;
        case "Wisconsin":
          $newState = "WI";
          break;
        case "West Virginia":
          $newState = "WV";
          break;
        case "Wyoming":
          $newState = "WY";
          break;
      }
    }
    return $newState;
  }
?>

Has this functionality been added to the plugin yet?

I would be interested in having the state name converted to postal codes in the interface itself. I think most people know the postal codes by now, and it would certainly save room in the form where you could place city, state, and zip on the same line.