Laravel World Database

This package focused on World Countries, Regions, and Cities database with locale support for Laravel.

Note: This package is originally forked from https://github.com/khsing/laravel-world/

Conceptions

There are 5 main objects in this package.

  • World: the earth world.
  • Continent: 7 continent
  • Country: 248 countries
  • Division: Divisions such as state/province.
  • City: the last level of region, some cities up to Country, some up to Division.

Attributes

Common attributes:

  • name: Common name of region(english).
  • full_name: Full name or official name(english).
  • code: ISO-3166-1-alpha2/ISO-3166-2 code
  • local_name: translation of Common name
  • local_full_name: translation of full name
  • local_alias: alias in different language
  • local_abbr: Abbreviation

Country spec attributes:

  • emoji: Emoji flag of country
  • capital: Captial of this country
  • code_alpha3: Code of ISO-3166-1-alpha3
  • currency_code: ISO-4177 Currency Code, e.g. USD, CNY
  • currency_name: ISO-4177 Currency Name,
  • local_currency_name: ISO-4177 Currency name in locale

Example:

use Sitehandy\World\World;
$china = World::getByCode('cn');
$china->setLocale('zh-cn');
$china->name; // China
$china->local_name; // **
$china->full_name; // People's Republic of China
$china->local_full_name; // 中华人民共和国
$china->emoji; // 🇨🇳
$china->callingcode; // 86
$china->code; // CN
$china->code_alpha3; // CHN
$china->has_division; // true
$china->currency_code; // CNY
$china->currency_name; // Yuan Renminbi
$china->local_currency_name; // 人民币

Localization

Right now, only English(default and fallback) and Chinese-Simp zh-cn are supported. Locale settings is following Laravel project settings in config/app.php.

Setup

  • composer require
composer require sitehandy/laravel-world
  • Add Service Provider into config/app.php
'providers' => [
    // ...
    Sitehandy\World\WorldServiceProvider::class,
]
  • Publish
php artisan vendor:publish --force --provider="Sitehandy\World\WorldServiceProvider"
composer dump-autoload

The above process will copy seeder files to database/seeds

  • Init (Run Migrations & Seeder)
php artisan migrate
php artisan db:seed --class=WorldTableSeeder

Usage

  • get all Continent
use Sitehandy\World\World;

World::Continents()
  • get all Countries
use Sitehandy\World\World;

World::Countries()
  • get all Countries
use Sitehandy\World\Models\Country;

Country::all()
  • get country/city/division by code
use Sitehandy\World\World;

World::getByCode('cn'); // iso-3166 alpha 2 code
World::getByCode('chn'); // iso-3166 alpha 3 code
World::getByCode('cn-11'); // Beijing
  • get countries belong to a continent
use Sitehandy\World\Models\Continent;

$asia = Continent::getByCode('AS');
$countries = $asia->countries()->get();
// or use children method
$countries = $asia->children();
  • get continent or parent
$china = Country::getByCode('cn');
$asia = $china->parent();
  • get division/state/province via Conutry
$china = Country::getByCode('cn');
$provinces = $china->divisions()->get()
// or use children method
$provinces = $china->children();
  • get cities via Country or Division.
$china = Country::getByCode('cn');
// check has_division to determine next level is division or city.
$china->has_division; // true, otherwise is false
$regsions = $china->children();

Contributions

If you want contribute to this library, issue and pr are welcome.

Thanks

About

This package published under MIT license. If you have any question or suggestion, please feel free to submit a issue.

Have a nice day and all the best!