Is there a way to shorten this code?

[fr600]

if ($country == "us"){$display = "United States";}
elseif ($country == "au"){$display = "Australia";}
elseif ($country == "fr"){$display = "France";}
elseif ($country == "de"){$display = "Germany";}
elseif ($country == "it"){$display = "Italy";}
elseif ($country == "es"){$display = "Spain";}
elseif ($country == "uk"){$display = "United Kingdom";}
..... and so on

echo "Country: $country";

There are around 200 countries and I guess it's not a good idea to list them all in this way. Any idea how I can shorten this code without using MySQL database? Or you think it's ok like this?

[maxpup979]

use an array.
store the country abbreviation as the key, and the full name as the value.
then just do: $display= $countryarray[$country]

[fr600]

maxpup979 wrote:

use an array.
store the country abbreviation as the key, and the full name as the value.
then just do: $display= $countryarray[$country]

It would be very helpful if you can give me a short example. Sorry, I'm a newbie.

[thorpe]

$countries = array(
    "us" => "United States",
    "au" => "Australia",
    "fr" => "France",
    "de" => "Germany",
    "it" => "Italy",
    "es" => "Spain",
    "uk" => "United Kingdom"
);
echo $countries[$country];

[fr600]

Thnaks a lot 🙂