UgGeog

This is a laravel package you can use to retrieve population data for Uganda's regions, districts, subcounties and population according to the 2014 census data

Description

This package lets you to access population statistics such as male/female population, gender ratio, land area and population density associated with regions, districts or subcounties within Uganda

Table of Contents

• Requirements
• Installation
  • Composer
  • Service Provider
  • Publish Package
  • Run Migrations
• Usage
  • Getting All Records
  • Getting Specific Records
• Credits
• Contributions
• License

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Requirements

In order to run this project, ensure that you have installed;

• PHP 5.3 or later
• Composer

Installation

Follow these steps to install and setup the package within your project

Composer

Pull this package in through Composer

composer require jaymeskat/ug-geog

Service Provider

• Laravel 5.5 + Uses package auto discovery features to recognise the package.

• Laravel 5.4 and below Add the package to your application service providers in config/app.php file.

'providers' => [

    ...

    /**
     * Package Service Providers...
     */
    JaymesKat\UgGeog\UgGeogServiceProvider::class,

],

Publish Package

Publish the package to your application if required by running this command in your terminal.

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="JaymesKat\UgGeog\UgGeogServiceProvider"

Ensure all package classes are autoloaded

composer dump-autoload

Run Migrations

Set up seeding by adding the code below in the body of the run function inside the DatabaseSeeder.php file located within the database/seeds folder

$this->call(RegionsTableSeeder::class);

Run migrations to provision tables in your database, this will also add seed data to tables.

php artisan migrate --seed

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Usage

Getting All Records

Use models from package to get the records.

Regions

    use JaymesKat\UgGeog\Models\Region;

    $regionsArray = Region::list();

Districts

    use JaymesKat\UgGeog\Models\District;

    $districtsArray = District::list();

Subcounties

    use JaymesKat\UgGeog\Models\Subcounty;

    $subcountiesArray = Subcounty::list();

Getting Specific Records

Use the package models to retrieve specific region, district or subcounty information.

use JaymesKat\UgGeog\Models\Region;
use JaymesKat\UgGeog\Models\District;
use JaymesKat\UgGeog\Models\Subcounty;

$region = Region::get('Central');

$district = District::get('Kampala');

$subcounty = Subcounty::get('Bihanga');

// Get all districts within a region
$districtsWithinRegion = District::inRegion('Western');

// Get all subcounties within a district
$subcountiesWithinDistrict = Subcounty::inDistrict('Jinja');

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Credits

The data used in this package was published by Uganda Bureau Of Statistics on data.ug

Contributions

I welcome comments for improvements on this package. Please document this by creating an issue

License

This package is free software distributed under the terms of the MIT license.