Country list

Found this: https://packagist.org/packages/webpatser/laravel-countries Maybe it can be useful (I've never used it)

This is what i use

@include('countries', ['default' => Auth::user()->country])

Or

@include('countries', ['default' => null])

countries.blade.php : http://laravel.io/bin/ok2Vm

This is the basic idea, you can edit the value of each option to just the code.

Here's an alternative if you fancy using REST.

http://www.tweetegy.com/2011/02/how-to-get-a-semantic-list-of-all-countries-and-locations-in-the-world/

You'll need a GeoNames account. http://www.geonames.org/

I once made a seeder file for them...if you want DB and pull through with list() of course https://gist.github.com/bbashy/c6b6e8503519d5d08a0c

@bashy I don't think a DB table is needed for this ... I would prefer to create a class with a PHP array containing all the value ... Something like we have for language or config but I don't know how to do it.

@equipc Well of course I don't know what's best but I'm just giving you options :)

Jeffrey give a nice answer in Episode 5 of Build Project Flyer.

There is a PHP package called country-list by umpirsky that give the list of all countries with names and ISO 3166-1 codes in all languages in different data formats.

Some Laravel dedicated packages are available and uses this one:

• Monarobase/country-list
• quodos/laravel-countries

This is the best package i think for Laravel with all flags

https://github.com/webpatser/laravel-countries

Dear all!

I am working with "Core PHP" since 15years, but I am new to Laravel: I have started my first project this morning ;-)

I am using the built in Auth package of Laravel which is working very well. https://github.com/webpatser/laravel-countries is the first package which I tried to install "manually".

I followed all the instructions from the GitHub description as good as I can, but there are several problems: a) there is no app/config/app.php (in Laravel 5.4.15), so I am using config/app.php instead which seems to be correct b) 'providers' => ['Webpatser\Countries\CountriesServiceProvider' looks different in my version, so I have changed to: Webpatser\Countries\CountriesServiceProvider::class, --> is this correct?? c) 'aliases' => ['Countries' => 'Webpatser\Countries\CountriesFacade', looks different in my version, so I changed it: 'Countries' => Webpatser\Countries\CountriesFacade::class, d) I tried to execute $ php artisan countries:migration but it is not working. Then I have created $ php artisan make:command countries:migration which could be executed correctly but did not solve my problem (sorry for being so naiv...)

I am checking in the internet, but I cannot find a solution for my problem. Any help/suggestion is welcome very much!

Thanks a lot in advance, iCon!

You might be better off using the list in the symfony/intl package as the list is likely kept up to date a bit better than other options.

Also the package linked to previously uses the database to store the country data which I don't really think is the best place for it.

Another package to provide the country dropdown https://github.com/geodatasource/country-region-dropdown-menu, it support until region level.

This one is huge: https://github.com/antonioribeiro/countries

Geonames is fantastic web service for getting a lot of information: http://www.geonames.org/export/

Some specialized Laravel wrappers for geonames exist already out there: https://github.com/ipalaus/geonames https://github.com/yurtesen/geonames

(they essentially seed your DB with selected data from the web service)