README

package to fetch all countries and states around the world and store in the database

IMPORTANCE OF THE PACKAGE

NO API CALLS: Over the years i have been working with many API's that will help in getting countries with their State/Province, Making an API calls to the endpoint everytime a user visits the site, most of the times slow down the site while getting response from the third party website where the API was hosted. This packages eliminates any API calls of any such, you now have all the countries in your local database by running a simple command.

FEATURES

Generate Countries: This package helps you to generate countries around the world and save it inside your existing or newly created database without hitting any API endpoint.

Generate States: This package helps you to generate states/Province around the world with country ID generated initially when the country table was created. You can also generate State/Province for a particular country by specifying the country name you want to generate for.

USAGE

Install Package

composer require wisdom-diala/countrypkg-laravel

Create database if you don't have any database yet.

Run migration

php artisan migrate

After running migration, it will create two tables countries and states table

Run this command on your terminal to generate countries

php artisan g:c

This command will generate all countries around the world with it's country code and short name and save it in the countries table it created earlier.

Run this command on your terminal to generate all states/province

php artisan g:s all

This command generate all states with it's country ID from the country table that was initially created.

To generate states/province for a particular country run this command

php artisan g:s Nigeria

This command will generate all states/province in Nigeria.

Publish asset files

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=country_flags 

This command will publish the country flags images inside public/wisdom_countrypkg/img/country_flags

Using it in your controller

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use WisdomDiala\Countrypkg\Models\Country;
use WisdomDiala\Countrypkg\Models\State;

class TestController extends Controller
{
    public function getAllCountries()
    {
    	$countries = Country::all();
    	return view('pages.countries', compact('countries'));
    }

    public function getAllStates()
    {
    	$states = State::all();
    	return view('pages.states', compact('states'));
    }
}

Note: Make sure you import the Country and State Model that was shipped with the package.

That's all, you now have states and countries records in your local database and can use it anytime you want.

Watch the video on how to use the package here: https://youtu.be/7i1epKxxbd8

Countries and states records pulled from this API https://www.universal-tutorial.com/

Note: After installation of the package, you don't need any internet connection to generate the countries and states again.

If you really find this useful please give us a star.