Geonames into a directory style listing

There's no public documentation on how it's done, but I can give you a few hints on how it may be solved;

Firstly you need the continent and country information. You would probably like to organise it using the iso_alpha2 code, and the two letter continent code. When the structure is in place, you might also want to use token/url aliases to make nice URLs using the full names (which is in place for the next update of realradios.com).

Continent information may be retrieved using geonames_continents('short'); which will return continent info indexed by continent code.

Country information can be retrieved in various fashions;
1. geonames_countries(array('continent' => EU)) will return a list of countries in Europe.
2. geonames_countries() will return all countries
3. and geonames_countryinfo($iso_alpha2) will return you information for a single country.

What we've done is to create menu loader functions and set up the structure world/%continent/%country/etc...

Feel free to contribute a geonames_directory module - you are probably not the only person needing a simple standardized directory component that could be installed using a few clicks! ;)

Good luck!

Thanks so much for the tips!

I'll give it a try -- however, at the pace I code I'll bet someone beats me to it!

Quick side question while I have your ear...I notice the 5.x version is still in dev (red) state. Is it as functional as the 6.x version or is it essentially abandoned? :(

Michael

The 5.x state should be working perfectly...

Did you actually manage to do any progress or quit?
If you didn't I am actually looking forward to give this a try.

Kind Regards,
Jorge.