nnjeim/world

A Laravel package which provides a list of the countries, states, cities, currencies, timezones and languages.

The World is a Laravel package which provides a list of the countries, states, cities, timezones, currencies and languages.

It can be consumed with the World Facade or the defined API routes.

Installation

set APP_ENV=local
composer require nnjeim/world

set the ENV variable WORLD_DB_CONNECTION to the desired database connection (optional)

The world:install command is a helper to automate the installation process

php artisan world:install

Optionally you can manually install the package by following the below steps:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=world

php artisan migrate

php artisan db:seed --class=WorldSeeder # (requires ~15min)

What's new in v1.1.31?

• Addition of the fa locale @DevNull-IR
• Addition of cities from Malaysia @hirenkeraliya

Changelog

Please read CHANGELOG for more information of what was changed recently.

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING for more details.

Demo

Please feel free to query https://laravel-world.com

Examples
https://laravel-world.com/api/countries
https://laravel-world.com/api/countries?search=rom
https://laravel-world.com/api/states?filters[country_code]=RO&fields=cities

Usage

List all the countries

Use the World facade:

use Nnjeim\World\World;

$action =  World::countries();

if ($action->success) {
  $countries = $action->data;
}

response (object)
{
  "success": true,
  "data": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "name": "Afghanistan"
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "name": "Åland Islands"
    },
    .
    .
    .
  ],
}

Use the API countries endpoint:

https://myDomain.local/api/countries

Fetch a country with its states and cities.

Use the World facade:

use Nnjeim\World\World;

$action =  World::countries([
	'fields' => 'states,cities',
	'filters' => [
		'iso2' => 'FR',
	]
]);

if ($action->success) {

	$countries = $action->data;
}

Response:

(object)
{
  "success": true,
  "data": [
    "id": 77,
    "name": "France",
    "states": [
        {
          "id": 1271,
          "name": "Alo"
        },
        {
          "id": 1272,
          "name": "Alsace"
        },
        .
        .
        .
    ],
    "cities": [
        {
          "id": 25148,
          "name": "Abondance"
        },
        {
          "id": 25149,
          "name": "Abrest"
        },
        .
        .
        .
      ]
    ],
}

Use the API countries endpoint:

https://myDomain.local/api/countries?fields=states,cities&filters[iso2]=FR

List all the cities by country id

use Nnjeim\World\WorldHelper;

new class {
    protected $world;
    
    public function __construct(WorldHelper $world) {
        $this->world = $world;
    }
    
    $action = $this->world->cities([
        'filters' => [
            'country_id' => 182,
        ],
    ]);
    
    if ($action->success) {
        $cities = $action->data;
    }
}

Use the API cities endpoint:

https://myDomain.local/api/cities?filters[country_code]=RO 

Available actions

Name	Description
countries	lists all the world countries
states	lists all the states
cities	lists all the cities
timezones	lists all the timezones
currencies	lists all the currencies
languages	lists all the languages

An action response is formed as below:

• success (boolean)
• message (string)
• data (instance of Illuminate\Support\Collection)
• errors (array)

Countries action

• fields*: comma seperated string (countries table fields in addition to states, cities, currency and timezones).
• filters*: array of keys (countries table fields) and their corresponding values.
• search*: string.

States action

• fields*: comma seperated string (states table fields in addition to country and states).
• filters*: array of keys (states table fields) and their corresponding values.
• search*: string.

Cities action

• fields*: comma seperated string (cities table fields in addition to country and state).
• filters*: array of keys (cities table fields) and their corresponding values.
• search*: string.

Timezones action

• fields*: comma seperated string (timezones table fields in addition to country).
• filters*: array of keys (timezones table fields) and their corresponding values.
• search*: string.

Currencies action

• fields*: comma seperated string (currencies table fields in addition to country).
• filters*: array of keys (currencies table fields) and their corresponding values.
• search*: string.

Languages action

• fields*: comma seperated string (languages table fields).
• filters*: array of keys (languages table fields) and their corresponding values.
• search*: string.

Available API routes

All routes can be prefixed by any string. Ex.: admin, api...

Countries

Method	GET
Route	/{prefix}/countries
Parameters*	comma seperated fields (countries table fields in addition to states, cities, currency and timezones), array filters, string search
Example	/api/countries?fields=iso2,cities&filters[phone_code]=44
response	success, message, data

States

Method	GET
Route	/{prefix}/states
Parameters*	comma seperated fields (states table fields in addition to country and cities), array filters, string search
Example	/api/states?fields=country,cities&filters[country_code]=RO
response	success, message, data

Cities

Method	GET
Route	/{prefix}/cities
Parameters*	comma seperated fields (cities table fields in addition to country and state), array filters, string search
Example	/api/cities?fields=country,state&filters[country_code]=RO
response	success, message, data

Timezones

Method	GET
Route	/{prefix}/timezones
Parameters*	comma seperated fields (timezones table fields in addition to the country), array filters, string search
Example	/api/timezones?fields=country&filters[country_code]=RO
response	success, message, data

Currencies

Method	GET
Route	/{prefix}/currencies
Parameters*	comma seperated fields (currencies table fields in addition to the country), array filters, string search
Example	/api/currencies?fields=code&filters[country_code]=RO
response	success, message, data

Languages

Method	GET
Route	/{prefix}/languages
Parameters*	comma seperated fields, string search
Example	/api/languages?fields=dir
response	success, message, data

Localization

The available locales are ar, bn, br, de, en, es, fr, it, ja, kr, nl, pl, pt, ro, ru, tr and zh.
The default locale is en.

Include in the request header:

accept-language=locale

Alternatively, you can use specific locale with the World Facade setLocale('locale') helper method. Example:

World::setLocale('zh')->countries();

Schema

Configuration

The configuration of the world package is in the world.php config file.
If you are upgrading from a previous version, you should consider re-publishing the file by issuing:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=world --force

Customizing database connection

By default, this package uses the default database connection, but it's possible to customize it using the WORLD_DB_CONNECTION variable in your .env file.

Countries restrictions

Countries can be restricted while seeding the database either by adding the ISO2 country codes in the allowed_countries or disallowed_countries array lists.

Supported Locales

A list of the accepted locales which relate to the localized lang/ files.

Modules enablement

The states, cities, timezones, currencies and languages modules can be optionally disabled.
Please note that the cities module depends on the states module.

Routes

If you don't wish to use the packages as an API service, you can disable all the routes by assigning false to routes.

Migrations

It offers the ability to enable or disable the database fields.
When changing this configuration the database should be dropped and the seeder should be re-run.

Testing

Requirements

• The database is seeded.
• The database connection is defined in the .env file.

Browse to the package root folder and run:

composer install # installs the package dev dependencies
composer test

* optional