PHP States Array

Posted by Kris Bailey
January 22, 2009

Today a co-worker of mind asked me if I had an array of states handy so he didn't have to go create one. I did, and gave it to him, and thought that maybe someone else could benefit from it. So, continue on to get a copy/paste PHP array of states.

  1. $statesFull = array(
  2.         "AL" => "Alabama",
  3.         "AK" => "Alaska",
  4.         "AZ" => "Arizona",
  5.         "AR" => "Arkansas",
  6.         "CA" => "California",
  7.         "CO" => "Colorado",
  8.         "CT" => "Connecticut",
  9.         "DE" => "Delaware",
  10.         "DC" => "Washington DC",
  11.         "FL" => "Florida",
  12.         "GA" => "Georgia",
  13.         "HI" => "Hawaii",
  14.         "ID" => "Idaho",
  15.         "IL" => "Illinois",
  16.         "IN" => "Indiana",
  17.         "IA" => "Iowa",
  18.         "KS" => "Kansas",
  19.         "KY" => "Kentucky",
  20.         "LA" => "Louisiana",
  21.         "ME" => "Maine",
  22.         "MD" => "Maryland",
  23.         "MA" => "Massachusetts",
  24.         "MI" => "Michigan",
  25.         "MN" => "Minnesota",
  26.         "MS" => "Mississippi",
  27.         "MO" => "Missouri",
  28.         "MT" => "Montana",
  29.         "NE" => "Nebraska",
  30.         "NV" => "Nevada",
  31.         "NH" => "New Hampshire",
  32.         "NJ" => "New Jersey",
  33.         "NM" => "New Mexico",
  34.         "NY" => "New York",
  35.         "NC" => "North Carolina",
  36.         "ND" => "North Dakota",
  37.         "OH" => "Ohio",
  38.         "OK" => "Oklahoma",
  39.         "OR" => "Oregon",
  40.         "PA" => "Pennsylvania",
  41.         "RI" => "Rhode Island",
  42.         "SC" => "South Carolina",
  43.         "SD" => "South Dakota",
  44.         "TN" => "Tennessee",
  45.         "TX" => "Texas",
  46.         "UT" => "Utah",
  47.         "VT" => "Vermont",
  48.         "VA" => "Virginia",
  49.         "WA" => "Washington",
  50.         "WV" => "West Virginia",
  51.         "WI" => "Wisconsin",
  52.         "WY" => "Wyoming",
  53. );
  54. $statesShort = array_keys($statesFull);
  55. $statesLong = array_values($statesFull);

There ya go :-)

As a side note, I have noticed that search engines like it more when you make pulldown menus for state choices that have the display value of each state in the form of "KY - Kentucky", regardless of what the option value is.

 

PHP, Programming

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Thank you!

Comment by spikeb on September 23, 2009 @ 12:37 pm
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