Address formats - what are they?

You may have noticed the address format value ranges between 1 and 6. The Uk is 6 and most other countries are 1. What exactly is the ‘format’ ?

Address formats are based on international ISO standard formats.

In Zen Cart, formats are stored in the address_format table.

This table is structured as follows:

Columns

address_format_id

A unique, auto incremented value, to identify each address format record.

Type:	int(11)
Null:	No
Default:
Extra:	auto_increment

address_format

The format used for displaying the shipping/billing address.

Type:	varchar(128)
Null:	No
Default:

Possible variables are:

• $firstname - first name
• $lastname - last name
• $cr - forces line break
• $streets - street address
• $city - city
• $state - state
• $statecomma - state followed by a comma and a space
• $postcode - postcode
• $country - country
• Punctuation, spaces and other characters can be added as well before or after the variables

address_summary

Summary of the address format used for display purposes.

Type:	varchar(48)
Null:	No
Default:

Default Entries

The default entries can be seen in the file zc_install/sql/install/mysql_zencart.sql.

As of Zen Cart 1.5.6, they are:

The values are used as follows:

1 - Default, most countries except those below. 
2 - USA 
3 - Spain 
4 - Singapore 
5 - Germany 
6 - UK/GB 
7 - Australia