Magento- Country and States in Magento

Topic:

How can we get Country and States in Magento?

Solution:

Magento has inbuilt model for Country and State as seen in Checkout page. In checkout page if you select Country like ‘France’ , a drop down will be seen in place of textbox for States. I am writing here the code to directly get country name from ID and also to get States info from country.

    $countryName = Mage::getModel('directory/country')->load('FR')->getName(); //get country name
 
     
    echo 'Country Name ->'.$countryName.'
';
 
 
    $states = Mage::getModel('directory/country')->load('FR')->getRegions();
 
     
 
    //state names
 
    foreach ($states as $state)
 
    {      
 
        echo 'ID->'.$state->getId().'
';
        echo 'Name->'.$state->getName().'
';
 
    }