US Market

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itdamon	Posted: 2 Jul 2005 12:48:21 Hey, Any thoughts to adding a City & State search feature for us in the USA? Where would I need to edit the PHP if I wanted to shorten the "country" options? I may be limiting my site, but now that I've got everything working, I'm wanting to market this locally... Thanks, -Damon
wetsicle@wetsicle.co m	Posted: 2 Jul 2005 14:17:51 Any thoughts to adding a City & State search feature for us in the USA? I would like to see that incorporated in the script too...or possibly a "Search by Zip Code" and options of searching within a distance range from 5 miles to 100 miles or something along those lines. I have a copy of a free script I picked up about a year ago that has those functions...the developer just gave up on the script and posted it for free download for anyone who wanted to try to get it working.
VConnect Member	Posted: 3 Jul 2005 05:34:15 I agree with all of the above. Some dating sites actually allow you to see who is online in your own area by entering the number of kilometres you want to canvass from your own homebase. EG 50 kil 100 kil 500 kil. All towns and postcodes/zipcodes in these distances show up. That's getting pretty personal! It's all very well to chat to somebody 25,000 kilometres away but the gal or guy you are looking for may be only a 5 minute drive away!
.silver Admin	Posted: 3 Jul 2005 23:55:16 You people are right. We have actually planned to incorporate global database of countries, cities and zip codes to the software. We will also make it possible to customize the script without tweaking the code for serving specific area: country, or state, or even a town. So far the plan is: - Run finance engine (we are currently working on partner finance interfaces) - Major version update (with installation and content-management tools) - Global database of and zips/cities. At this moment I wouldn't recommend to tweak the code manually to target down a country or a town, you can face unexpected problems. Better wait for the "official" fix, keep building your link popularity and develop your unique site look.