Laravel Countries is a bundle for Laravel, providing Almost ISO 3166_2, 3166_3, currency, Capital and more for all countries.
Add webpatser/laravel-countries to composer.json.
"webpatser/laravel-countries": "dev-master"
Run composer update to pull down the latest version of Country List.
Edit app/config/app.php and add the provider and filter
'providers' => array(
'Webpatser\Countries\CountriesServiceProvider',
)
Now add the alias.
'aliases' => array(
'Countries' => 'Webpatser\Countries\CountriesFacade',
)
Generate the migration file:
$ php artisan countries:migration
It will generate the _setup_countries_table.php migration and the CountriesSeeder.php files. To make sure the data is seeded insert the following code in the seeds/DatabaseSeeder.php
//Seed the countries
$this->call('CountriesSeeder');
$this->command->info('Seeded the countries!');
You may now run it with the artisan migrate command:
$ php artisan migrate --seed
After running this command the filled countries table will be available