Laravel Country Info package

Provides country, locales/languages and timezone information to your Laravel project.

After running the migration and seeders, you will have 3 tables filled with the countries of the world, their locales and timezones.

Each table corresponds to a model you can use in your code. Below you find the models and their properties.

Note: A locale is a language that is spoken in a specific country, like English UK or English US. A language is just English or French.

Data

Country

Properties:

• Code - 2 letter code, like FR or NL
• Title - English name, like France

Locale

Properties:

• Country - country this locale belongs to (only for locales, not for languages)
• Code - format is like nl-NL or en-GB
• Title - English name, like Afrikaans / Namibia

Timezone

• Country - country this timezone belongs to
• Name - English name, like Africa/Abidjan

Installing the package and filling the database with all data

First install the package:

composer require michielvaneerd/laravel-country-info

Then run the migration - this will create 3 tables: mvr_countries, mve_locales and mve_timezones:

php artisan migrate

The run the seeders.

Always first run the country seeder, because the locale and timezone seeders depend on it.

php artisan db:seed --class="Michielvaneerd\\CountryInfo\\Database\\Seeders\\CountrySeeder"

If you don't need locales or timezones, you can of course skip them.

php artisan db:seed --class="Michielvaneerd\\CountryInfo\\Database\\Seeders\\LocaleSeeder"

php artisan db:seed --class="Michielvaneerd\\CountryInfo\\Database\\Seeders\\TimezoneSeeder"

If you also want languages (locale without country) to be added. These are languages like en or nl so without the country attached to it. Of course they also don't have a country relation.

php artisan db:seed --class="Michielvaneerd\\CountryInfo\\Database\\Seeders\\LanguageSeeder"

Enable or disable countries, locales and timezones

Each table also has an enabled column that can be set to Y or N. This way you can add flags for items that should or shouldn't be displayed in your app.

This flag can be set with Artisan commands.

Artisan commands

Countries

List all countries:

mve:countries-list

List enabled or disabled countries:

mve:countries-list --enabled=Y

mve:countries-list --enabled=N

Order countries by code or title:

mve:countries-list --order=code

mve:countries-list --order=title

Enable or disable countries:

mve:countries-edit --enable=Y --codes=FR,NL

mve:countries-edit --enable=N --codes=FR,NL

Locales

Display enabled locales for the Netherlands and France and order them by code:

mve:locales-list --enabled=Y --order=code --countries=NL,FR

Enable some languages:

mve:locales-edit --enable=Y --codes=en-GB,nl-NL

Enable all languages for a specific country:

mve:locales-edit --enable=Y --countries=GB,NL

Timezones

Display enabled timezones for the Netherlands and France and order them by name:

mve:timezones-list --enabled=Y --order=name --countries=NL,FR

Enable some timezones:

mve:timezones-edit --enable=Y --names="Europe/Amsterdam,Europe/Paris"

Enable all languages for a specific country:

mve:timezones-edit --enable=Y --countries=GB,NL

Using the package

use Michielvaneerd\CountryInfo\Models\Country;
use Michielvaneerd\CountryInfo\Models\Locale;
use Michielvaneerd\CountryInfo\Models\Timezone;

// Get one specific country
$country = Country::where('code', 'GB')->first();
echo $country->code; // GB

// Get all enabled countries
$countries = Country::where('enabled', 'Y')->get();

// Get all locales for a specific country
$locales = $country->locales;

// Get one specific locale
$locale = Locale::where('code', 'en-GB')->first();
echo $locale->code; // en-GB
echo $locale->title; // English / United Kingdom
echo $locale->country; // Country model

// Get all timezones for a specific country
$timezones = $country->timezones;

// Get one specific timezone
$timezone = Timezone::where('name', 'Europe/Amsterdam')->first();
echo $timezone->name; // Europe/Amsterdam
echo $timezone->country; // Country model