[support] Trying to not hack core.

[Earnie Boyd]

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Pat Newberry wrote:
>
> After some Google searching I found I could add to a function Hook to an
> existing custom module that deals with forms (written by 3rd party) with a
> hook for countries alter.
>
> function myCustomMod_countries_alter(&$countries) {
>
> $countries['IE'] = 'Republic of Ireland-xx';
> $countries['GB'] = 'Great Britain';
> $countries['RU'] = 'Russian Federation';
> $countries['CI'] = 'Cote d\' lvoire';
> $countries['BA'] = 'Bosnia Herzegovina';
> $countries['NN'] = 'Northern Ireland';
>
> }
>
> Now when I go to the view, this has no effect on the list of countries, but
> when I go to the search page that uses this view with exposed criteria and
> form, I can see that the countries that exist in the iso file (e.g. Republic
> of Ireland with an -xx) are modified with my changes from the
> countries_alter hook, but the countries that do not exist in the iso file
> are not added (e.g. Northern Ireland). I am guessing at the time the exposed
> search drop down list is built, it has my changes in it (altered and added)
> but that it checks against the values that are checked in the view and if
> it's not check in the view, it won't get added to the list.

Have you cleared the caches?  admin/config/development/performance

>
> So looking for advice as to what direction I should head.
>
> 1.) Hack the ISO.inc file.
> 2.) learn how to attach another .inc file to the field_address:country
> 3.) another hook or code in the hook alter that will work when the form is
> rendered.

Perhaps another hook.  Have you looked at drupal.org/project/location?
 Do you know about api.drupal.org?

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