Thread: Dynamic Drop Downs for Country, State, and City

Hi Centurypixel, I think what your plugin does it a little bit different from what mohsinoffline proposed.

Your webpage says:

I think what mohsinoffline is proposing is a way to filter the site to show posts associated with a specific city, and to provide the user a way to select a country first, then a city, and use that city as the filter. He currently provides a plugin that does almost that, but only 1 level deep (i.e. either filter by country, or filter by city, but not a hierarchical solution).

Edit: My mistake, he also proposed having the hierarchical dynamic country/state/city selector while posting an ad, which sounds like what your plugin provides.

From the original post for this thread I did the bolded part. Thank you for heads up. I will get the underlined part done now.

Hi centurypixel,

Thanks for the mod. I could not download it from the link you provided. I briefly checked the demo site, and it seems the drop downs are working fine. However, here's what is in the solution we are developing, just to clarify:

1) The dynamic drop downs can work for up to three levels, and can be associated with any three custom fields, so it is not tied to the country/state/city fields. It will also work with two levels.
2) You can associate any custom fields to levels one two and three, and add all the data you want to appear in the drop downs from the admin back-end.
3) The edit ad form on the front end works with the same drop down hierarchy and the one on the admin back-end defaults to text boxes so the admin can enter the values as free text.
4) Like almightyeric mentioned, The same data could then be used to create sub-sites with filtered results for the visitors.

We are almost done with the first three points, we are still testing if it works in all scenarios.

Regards,
Mohsin

Thank you for the note Moshin. I just did this quickly for my project's purposes and simply wanted to share with the community. I will not be going to the extend you have included as I have no need for it, but I am almost done coding the #4 solution for the search area and that'll be it from me.

So for all, basically what my code does is displays all countries in the drop-down and upon selection, it will populate the state drop-down. I personally think city is redundant so for the search function, for now simply country and state. However, my goal next week is to simply GeoLocate the user and also add a "Locate me" button which will find the location of the user or have them enter their zip code and do a radius search in miles or kilometers.

I don't plan on making any admin interface for it, but if you could also include GeoCoding / radius search to your solution it would fantastic!

Thanks again and good luck!

Note: I checked the download link, it seems to be working.

The development work on the plugin is complete now, all that remains is writing the installation guide and we are ready to go live!

Here we go! We have just launched it! Please follow the thread below for all the details plus the discount code:

http://forums.appthemes.com/dynamic-...omplete-35194/

I didn't buy the plugin yet but I'm wondering, instead of a Colorbox modal pop-up, can the filtering be displayed as a slider or a seperate Div on the page? Reason I ask is because I'll be using SLB (Simple Light box) instead of the default image/thumbnail Colorbox included in CP, Colorbox is simple and functional but has it's limitations.

Basically, the filtering loads in a hidden div, the contents of which is "used" by the colorbox popup when initiated. So it's there in the markup, you may change it to show in a different popup or a visible div on the page according to the way you prefer.

Regards,
Mohsin

Great, love it when things are flexible, thanks Moshin.

Wow Mohsin, I am truely impressed and grateful. I've been procrastinating buying the citify plugin because I still didn't have exactly what I needed. I bought Classipress about a year and a half ago and, although it is a great theme, it was never complete for my needs because it lacked the very basic functionality of filtering by location. I never finished my site because I would always get to the point of how I was going to manage many, many, many subsites set up in a multisite and would stop working on it. I just saw your post tonight and I am very excited, thank you for spending the time to create it. This will solve so many of my problems including setting up the multiple sub sites, managing/approving ads in multiple admin panels, and duplication of work when making changes to each of these sites. Now I can just have one site and....done!

I'm off to go see if I have any questions/concerns about then I am buying it!

Thanks again Mohsin!!!!