Countries for Laravel

What does it gives you?

This package has all sorts of information about countries:

info	items
taxes	32
geometry maps	248
topology maps	248
currencies	256
countries	266
timezones	423
borders	649
flags	1,570
states	4,526
cities	7,376
timezones times	81,153

Validation

The validation is extending Laravel's validation, so you can use it like any other validation rules, like

/**
 * Store a new blog post.
 *
 * @param  Request  $request
 * @return Response
 */
public function store(Request $request)
{
    $this->validate($request, [
        'title' => 'required|unique:posts|max:255',
        'body' => 'required',
        'country' => 'country' //Checks if valid name.common
    ]);

    // The blog post is valid, store in database...
}

Which validation rules there is and what there name should be, can all be configured in the configuration file.

'validation' => [
    'rules' => [
	    'countryCommon' => 'name.common'
	]
]

By changing the configuration like this, we can now access the property name.common, by the validation rule countryCommon

You have to define all the validations rules in settings, only a few is defined by default, the default is

'rules' 	=> [
    'country' 			=> 'name.common',
    'cca2',
    'cca3',
    'ccn3',
    'cioc',
    'currencies'			=> 'ISO4217',
    'language',
    'language_short'	=> 'ISO639_3',
]

Documentation

This package is a Laravel bridge, please refer to the main package repository for more information and docs.

Requirements

• PHP 7.0+
• Laravel 5.5+

Installing

Use Composer to install it:

composer require pragmarx/countries-laravel

Publishing assets

You can publish configuration by doing:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider=PragmaRX\\CountriesLaravel\\Package\\ServiceProvider

Usage

After installing you'll have access to the Countries Façade, and the package is based on Laravel Collections, so you basically have access to all methods in Collections, like

$france = Countries::where('name.common', 'France');

Flag routes

You can refer directly to an SVG flag by linking

/pragmarx/countries/flag/download/<cca3-code>.svg
/pragmarx/countries/flag/file/<cca3-code>.svg

Examples:

https://laravel.com/pragmarx/countries/flag/download/usa.svg
https://laravel.com/pragmarx/countries/flag/file/usa.svg

http://pragmarx.test/pragmarx/countries/flag/file/usa.svg

These routes can be turned off in the configuration file:

'routes' => [
    'enabled' => false,
]

Author

Antonio Carlos Ribeiro

License

Countries is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details

Contributing

Pull requests and issues are more than welcome.