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This topic was covered previously but last added to in 2011 by user sluc23, so I thought a new topic would be better - I have exactly the same issue in that I'm in Ireland and need the 'state' to display in full on letters etc - ie Wexford not WX:

Apparently the token {contact.state_province_name} is not working when is included in message templates. The text "{contact.state_province_name}" is shown and not the proper Province/State Name.
This token works only for Mailing Labels, but we need the print PDF or send email with the full Province Name

Only the token {contact.state_province} is working showing the abbreviation everywhere.
Sadly this is a very "american way" to display states, but I would say that in the rest of the world (at least SouthAmerica and mostly Europa) the full province name is needed

The solution of implementing a 'hook' with hook_civicrm_tokens and hook_civicrm_tokenValues  was given as follows:

function yourmodulename_civicrm_tokens( &$tokens ) {
   $tokens['contact'] = array('contact.province' => 'Province', 'contact.complete_address' => 'Complete Address' );
}


function yourmodulename_civicrm_tokenValues( &$values, &$contactIDs ) {
   require_once 'api/v2/Contact.php';
   require_once 'CRM/Utils/Address.php';
   foreach($contactIDs as $id){
      $params = array('contact_id'=>$id);
      $contact = civicrm_contact_get($params);
      $values[$id]['contact.complete_address'] = nl2br(CRM_Utils_Address::format($contact[$id]));
      $values[$id]['contact.province'] = $contact[$id]["state_province_name"];      
   }
}

but
a) I can't find info in the wiki about how to implement this under wordpress (mentions joomla and drupal only)
b) I have no problem amending code - I just can't figure out where to amend it. 

If someone could help that would be great.

Thank you so much!
Clare.

Thanks - I read that but didn't see the WP bit - perhaps I missed it...

I'll look through again 

the white page indicates that you most likely have a syntax or parse error in your php file

might want to run "php -l FILENAME" from the cmd line on civicrmHooks.php and fix that file

lobo

I could really use clarification on this ... I apologise if these are stupid questions but I'm one of 2 staff working part time for a national charity and have already passed the deadline for this and had to revert to exporting all the details out to word to get the mailing out.

I wish I had hours to work through pages and pages of wiki and figure it all out myself but I dont and now am coming under pressure to just drop civi as it's taking me away from fundraising work. I know in the long run it will bring benefits but just getting basic things to work seems like a mammoth task!

I am tech savvy but feel all the documentation assumes you already know your way around the inner working of civi. I can change and tweak code but find getting info on or getting someone to point me in the right direction of WHERE to make changes impossible

 

again i'm sorry for stupid questions but I've always search the wiki and forums first before I ask...

Hi Donald,

I do have good sql (being a qualified developer) and reasonable php, but when you've been spending hours going through the forums and wiki for solutions  you get a bit a code blind - and knowing code doesn't help when there's not a lot of info about file structure - which is where I keep hitting issues.

So I'm not asking for someone to do the work for me and I want to learn -  but there's tons of pages of writing the hooks themselves, but I spent literally hours trying to find out WHERE to add the hook php, what it needed to be called  etc - a paragraph at the beginning of the section before going into the detail of the code would have saved me so much wasted time - this is whats causing me most frustration.

 
Thank you for taking the time tho to look at the issue - i do appreciate it
C.