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Hi:

I'm quite new as a CiviCRM developer, but quite experienced with Drupal and PHP.
I need to develop a new API feature, in order to retrieve County and State data stored at CiviCRM database. It's easy to do by direct query to the database, but I like to make it in a more civilized way, and if it can be a contribution to core code, much better.
Where can I start? There's some kind of "Extend the API for Dummies"?
Thanks

El Congrio

Xavier I don't think you should be using the deprecated "constant" api for this. Why didn't basic_get work?
@elcongrio if all you require is the list of countries and states then the api already exists.
// Fetch enabled countries
civicrm_api3('address', 'getoptions', array('field' => 'country_id'));
// Fetch all enabled states
civicrm_api3('address', 'getoptions', array('field' => 'state_province_id'));
// Fetch states for the US
civicrm_api3('address', 'getoptions', array('field' => 'state_province_id', 'country_id' => 'US'));
See http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Pseudoconstant+%28option+list%29+Reference

Thank you very much Xavier. It's seems that the effort is best focused to another feature, but you got a deal!

@Coleman Watts, thanks for the tip. You just save me 3 days of work!!!