A simple restful api with laravel that displays a list of all the countries, country code, iso code name and flag in json format.
- Apache
- PHP
- Composer
Follow the below steps to install and set up the application.
Step 1: Clone the Application
You can download the ZIP file or git clone from my repo into your project directory.
Step 2: Configure the Application
After you clone the repo in to your project folder the project need to be set up by following commands-
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In terminal go to your project directory and Run
composer install -
Then copy the .env.example file to .env file in the project root folder
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Edit the .env file and fill all required data for the bellow variables
APP_URL=http://localhost //your application domain URL go here DB_HOST=127.0.0.1 // Your DB host IP. Here we are assumed it to be local host DB_PORT=3306 //Port if you are using except the default DB_DATABASE=ccpapi // Your DB name DB_USERNAME=root // Your DB username DB_PASSWORD= // Your DB password -
To set the Application key run the bellow command in your terminal.
php artisan key:generate -
Create all the necessary tables need for the application by runing the below command
php artisan migrate -
Then import countries.sql in your phpmyadmin.
Thats all! The application is now configured.
The application has the following resources
GET http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1/country
The response will be a JSON containing the country info.
[
{
"id": 1,
"name": "Please select your country...",
"code": "FLAG_TRANSPARENT",
"phonecode": "+"
},
{
"id": 2,
"name": "Afghanistan",
"code": "AF",
"phonecode": "+93"
}
]GET http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1/country/afghanistan
The response will be a JSON containing the country info.
[
{
"id": 2,
"name": "Afghanistan",
"code": "AF",
"phonecode": "+93"
}
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