can't set default country in pull-down menus

[ZAP]

Grr.

 

This is one of those things that should be easy, and probably is, but I can't seem to make it work.

 

I want to set "United States" as the default selected country in all my pull-down lists. I have set it in admin -> Configuration -> My Store. When that didn't do anything, I also added define('STORE_COUNTRY', 'United States'); to english.php, but that also did nothing.

 

When I look at create_account.php, I see that the country list function is called like so:

 

echo tep_get_country_list('country')

 

And I see in html_output.php that the function looks like this:

 

////

// Creates a pull-down list of countries

function tep_get_country_list($name, $selected = '', $parameters = '') {

$countries_array = array(array('id' => '', 'text' => PULL_DOWN_DEFAULT));

$countries = tep_get_countries();

 

for ($i=0, $n=sizeof($countries); $i<$n; $i++) {

$countries_array[] = array('id' => $countries[$i]['countries_id'], 'text' => $countries[$i]['countries_name']);

}

 

return tep_draw_pull_down_menu($name, $countries_array, $selected, $parameters);

}

 

I have tried adding changing the function call to echo tep_get_country_list('country', 'United States'). No dice. What the Sam Hill am I doing wrong?

 

THANKS in advance for helping this poor frustrated soul.

[ZAP]

Aha!

 

Had to do it using the country number (223 in this case).

 

This seems like a glitch in my CVS, so mebbe I'm the only one with this problem anyway.