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 |

Geology and topology maps

Amongst many other information you'll be able to plot country maps:

Requirements

• PHP 7.0+

Installing

Use Composer to install it:

composer require pragmarx/countries

Instantiating

use PragmaRX\Countries\Package\Countries;

echo $countries->where('cca2', 'IT')->first()->hydrateCurrencies()->currencies->EUR->coins->frequent->first();

// or calling it statically

echo $countries->where('cca2', 'IT')->first()->hydrateCurrencies()->currencies->EUR->coins->frequent->first();

Should both return

€1

Overloading the default configuration:

use PragmaRX\Countries\Package\Services\Config;

$countries = new Countries(new Config([
    'hydrate' => [
        'elements' => [
            'currencies' => true,
            'flag' => true,
            'timezones' => true,
        ],
    ],
]));

Usage

This package is not tied to Laravel and doesn't require it to be installed (we have a bridge for this purpose), but it has Laravel Collections in its core, all methods in Collections are available, this way you can do things like filter, map, reduce, search, sort, reject, and a lot more. It, actually, uses Coollection, which is Laravel Collections with a fluent syntax, allowing us to have access to array keys (and values) as object properties.

To get all countries in the data base you just have to:

use PragmaRX\Countries\Package\Countries;

$countries = new Countries();

$all = $countries->all();

To get a json you:

return $countries->toJson();

Filter by keys and values:

$countries->where('name.common', 'Brazil')

Will find Brazil by its common name, which is a

#items: array:22 [▼
  "name" => array:3 [▼
    "common" => "Brazil"
    "official" => "Federative Republic of Brazil"
    "native" => array:1 [▼
      "por" => array:2 [▼
        "official" => "República Federativa do Brasil"
        "common" => "Brasil"
      ]
    ]
  ]

Or alternatively you can filter like this

$countries->whereNameCommon('Brazil')

And, you can go deepeer

$countries->where('name.native.por.common', 'Brasil')

Or search by the country top level domain

$countries->where('tld.0', '.ch')

To get

"name" => array:3 [▼
  "common" => "Switzerland"
  "official" => "Swiss Confederation"
  "native" => array:4 [▶]
]
"tld" => array:1 [▼
  0 => ".ch"
]

And use things like pluck

$countries->where('cca3', 'USA')->first()->hydrateStates()->states->pluck('name', 'postal')

To get

"MA" => "Massachusetts"
"MN" => "Minnesota"
"MT" => "Montana"
"ND" => "North Dakota"
...

The package uses a modified Collection which allows you to access properties and methods as objects:

$countries->where('cca3', 'FRA')
         ->first()
         ->borders
         ->first()
         ->name
         ->official

Should give

Principality of Andorra

Borders hydration is disabled by default, but you can have your borders hydrated easily by calling the hydrate method:

$countries->where('name.common', 'United Kingdom')
         ->hydrate('borders')
         ->first()
         ->borders
         ->reverse()
         ->first()
         ->name
         ->common

Should return

Ireland

Hydration

To improve performance, hydration, which is enabled by default, can be disable on most country properties, and this is how you manually hydrate properties:

$countries->where('name.common', 'United States')->first()->hydrate('timezones')->timezones->first()->zone_name,

$countries->where('name.common', 'United States')->first()->hydrate('timezones')->timezones->first()->zone_name,

Those are some of the hydratable properties:

• Borders
• Cities
• Currencies
• Flag
• Geometry
• Languages
• States
• Taxes
• Timezone
• Topology

Extra where rules

Some properties are stored differently and we therefore need special rules for accessing them, these properties are

• ISO639_3 => The 3 letter language code.
• ISO4217 => The 3 letter currency code.

You can of course access them like other properties

$countries->whereISO639_3('por')->count()
$countries->where('ISO639_3', 'por')->count()

Mapping

Sometimes you would like to access a property by a different name, this can be done in settings, this way

'maps' => [
    'lca3' => 'ISO639_3'
]

Here we bind the language 3 letter short code ISO format to lca3, which is short for language code alpha 3-letter. So now we can access the property by

$countries->whereLca3('por')

Or

$countries->where('lca3', 'por')

Some other examples from Laravel News and some other contributors

Generate a list of countries

$countries->all()->pluck('name.common');

returns

[
    "Aruba",
    "Afghanistan",
    "Angola",
    "Anguilla",
    "Åland Islands",
    ....

Generate a list of currencies

$countries->all()->pluck('currencies');

returns

$countries->all()->pluck('currencies')

Get the currency symbol

$countries->where('name.common', 'Brazil')->first()->hydrate('currency')->currencies->BRL->units->major->symbol

Generate a list of States

$countries->where('name.common', 'United States')
    ->first()
    ->hydrateStates()
    ->states
    ->sortBy('name')
    ->pluck('name', 'postal')

returns

[
    "AL": "Alabama",
    "AK": "Alaska",
    "AZ": "Arizona",
    "AR": "Arkansas",
    "CA": "California",
    ....
    ....

Hydrate and get a cities

$countries->where('cca3', 'FRA')
    ->first()
    ->hydrate('cities')
    ->cities
    ->paris
    ->timezone

Should return

Europe/Paris

Get a countries currency

$countries->where('name.common', 'United States')->first()->currency;

returns

[{
    "alternativeSigns": [],
    "ISO4217Code": "USD",
    "ISO4217Number": "840",
    "sign": "$",
    "subunits": 100,
    "title": "U.S. dollar",
    ....

Get all currencies

$countries->currencies()

returns

[
    0 => "AED"
    1 => "AFN"
    2 => "ALL"
    3 => "AMD"
    4 => "ANG"
    5 => "AOA"
    6 => "ARS"
    7 => "AUD"
    8 => "AWG"
    9 => "AZN"
    10 => "BAM"
    ....

Get the timezone for a State

return $countries->where('name.common', 'United States')->first()->timezone->NC;

returns

America/New_York

Get all timezones for a country

$countries->where('name.common', 'Brazil')
  ->first()
  ->hydrateTimezones()
  ->timezones
  ->map(function ($timezone) {
      return $timezone->zone_name;
  })->values()
  ->unique()
  ->toArray()

Get all times for a timezone

return $countries->where('name.common', 'United States Virgin Islands')->first()->hydrate('timezones_times')->timezones->first()->times;

returns

"times" => [
    "abbreviation" => "LMT"
    "dst" => "0"
    "gmt_offset" => "-14764"
    "time_start" => "-1825098837"
    "zone_id" => "415"
    1 => [
        "abbreviation" => "AST"
        "dst" => "0"
        "gmt_offset" => "-14400"
        "time_start" => "-1825098836"
        "zone_id" => "415"
    ]
]

Flags

Countries provides many different flag sources, including SVG flags. This is how you use one of the avaiable sources:

Install flag-icon

npm install --save-dev flag-icon-css

Import it to your project

@import '~flag-icon-css/sass/flag-icon.scss';

Use Countries to get the flag span

$unitedStatesFlag = 
    $this->countries->where('cca3', 'USA')
    ->first()
    ->flag
    ->flag_icon;

Render it in your blade template

{!! $unitedStatesFlag !!}

Publishing assets

You can publish configuration by doing:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider=PragmaRX\\Countries\\ServiceProvider

Data

This package uses some other open source packages and, until we don't build a better documentation, you can find some more info about data on mledoze/countries and how to use it on this fantastic Laravel News article.

Cache

Since this data is not supposed to change, calls are automatically cached. If you want to change this behaviour, you can edit config/countries.php file once it's published.

Framework bridges

• Laravel

Sample files

• sample-partial.json: example of a country with no borders hydrated.
• sample-full.json: example of a fully hydrated country.

Author

Antonio Carlos Ribeiro All contributors

Copyrights

To build the countries database and relations, this package make use of those sources and packages:

• mledoze/countries
• Natural Earth Vector
• rinvex/country
• commerceguys/tax
• timezonedb
• wiredmax/world-currencies

License

Countries is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License - see the LICENSE file for details

Contributing

Pull requests and issues are more than welcome.