Just out of dire curiosity, a select-country drop down list isn’t that straight forward as imagined.

When creating a drop-down field in the CP Custom member field section, you can enter the names of the countries but not the option values. So ultimately, I have two separate country lists. One in the CP section and one custom list with an embedded country list template.

Have any of come across this? I suspect a list of countries is not that uncommon!

I guess the question here is how to get the values of a list from a drop-down custom member field. hmmm

The EE manual suggests the code below in a SAEF:

<select id=“{field_name}“ name=“{field_name}“>
{options}<option value=“{option_value}“{selected}>{option_name}</option>{/options}
</select>

But that doesn’t seem to work with custom member fields.

Any chance a bit of hard-coding would work?

I’m assuming your desired output would be something like:

Yeah, hard-coding certainly works.

But here’s what that translates into: I had to create a separate list with all countries and embed it. So within the {exp:user:edit} tags, I have the following code:

But that means that I have two separate lists, one as a drop-down custom member field in the CP section and another one that is hard-coded as described above.
I suppose it’d be really elegant if I could pull the options of a custom member field to populate my pull-down within the {exp:user:edit}.

Just an idea to complement the exp:user:edit functionality.

Yes but aren’t you trying to get two different sets of values?
1 - a Value… perhaps being an abreviation
and
2 - a “Friendly” name for those values

You can’t currrently do that with Native EE member templates…

Yeah. Argh. Happy days.

Haha, Sorry man

Np! In fact, I think it’s amazing how much further I could venture with the User module.

The only other thing is to get user lists sorted by entries and or be able to show the number of contributions by users.
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