Validate states and provinces for USA and Canada with Laravel 5

This Package has moved to here for laravel 5.5+. Please use that instead. Also check out these other community validation rules

Installation

Install via composer - In the terminal:

composer require tylercd100/laravel-validator-state

Now add the following to the providers array in your config/app.php

Tylercd100\Validator\State\ServiceProvider::class

Usage

# USA vs Canada
Validator::make(['test' => 'UT'], ['test' => 'state']); //true
Validator::make(['test' => 'UT'], ['test' => 'state:usa']); //true
Validator::make(['test' => 'BC'], ['test' => 'state:canada']); //true

# Abbreviation vs Full
Validator::make(['test' => 'Utah'], ['test' => 'state:full']); //true
Validator::make(['test' => 'UT'], ['test' => 'state:abbr']); //true

# Mix and match
Validator::make(['test' => 'UT'], ['test' => 'state:usa,abbr']); //true
Validator::make(['test' => 'Alberta'], ['test' => 'state:canada,full']); //true