countries

Rinvex Country

Rinvex Country is a simple and lightweight package for retrieving country details with flexibility. A whole bunch of data including name, demonym, capital, iso codes, dialling codes, geo data, currencies, flags, emoji, and other attributes for all 250 countries worldwide at your fingertips.

Usage

Install via composer require rinvex/countries, then use intuitively:

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Note: This package is framework-agnostic, so it's compatible with any PHP framework whatsoever without any dependencies at all, except for the PHP version itself ^8.1. Awesome, huh? :smiley:

Table Of Contents

• Advanced Usage
• Features Explained
• Data Sources
• Upgrade
• Changelog
• Support
• Contributing & Protocols
• Security Vulnerabilities
• About Rinvex
• License

Advanced Usage

Get country attributes (self-descriptive):

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Note: When retrieving single country, you'll get the full country details just like the previous example. But when retrieving all countries, you'll get a short-listed result set with common country details for better performance.

Features Explained

• Country data are all stored here: resources/data/countries.json.
• name
  • common - common name in english
  • official - official name in english
  • native - list of all native names
    • key: three-letter ISO 639-3 language alpha code
    • value: name object
      • key: official - official name translation
      • key: common - common name translation
• demonym - name of residents
• capital - capital city
• iso_3166_1_alpha2 - code ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
• iso_3166_1_alpha3 -code ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
• iso_3166_1_numeric - code ISO 3166-1 numeric
• currency - ISO 4217 currency code(s)
  • key: three-letter ISO 4217 currency code
  • value: currency object
    • key: iso_4217_code - three-letter ISO 4217 currency alpha code
    • key: iso_4217_numeric - three-number ISO 4217 currency numeric code
    • key: iso_4217_name - official ISO 4217 currency name
    • key: iso_4217_minor_unit - minor currency unit
• tld - country code top-level domain
• alt_spellings - alternative spellings
• languages - list of official languages
  • key: three-letter ISO 639-3 language code
  • value: name of the language in english
• translations - list of name translations
  • key: three-letter ISO 639-3 language code
  • value: name object
    • key: official - official name translation
    • key: common - common name translation
• geo
  • continent - continents that country lies in
    • key: two-letter continent code
    • value: name of the continent in english
  • postal_code - whether the country uses postal codes
  • latitude - short form of latitude coordinate point
  • latitude_desc - described latitude coordinate point
  • longitude - short form of longitude coordinate point
  • longitude_desc - described longitude coordinate point
  • max_latitude - maximum latitude coordinate point
  • max_longitude - maximum longitude coordinate point
  • min_latitude - minimum latitude coordinate point
  • min_longitude - minimum longitude coordinate point
  • area - land area in km²
  • region - geographical region
  • subregion - geographical sub-region
  • world_region - geographical world region
  • region_code - geographical region numeric code
  • subregion_code - geographical sub-region numeric code
  • landlocked - landlock status
  • borders - land borders
  • independent - independent status
• dialling
  • calling_code - calling code(s)
  • national_prefix - national prefix
  • national_number_lengths - national number lengths
  • national_destination_code_lengths - national destination code lengths
  • international_prefix - international prefix
• extra
  • geonameid - Geoname ID
  • edgar - Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system
  • itu - Codes assigned by the International Telecommunications Union
  • marc - MAchine-Readable Cataloging codes from the Library of Congress
  • wmo - Country abbreviations by the World Meteorological Organization
  • ds - Distinguishing signs of vehicles in international traffic
  • fifa - Codes assigned by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association
  • fips - Codes from the U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard
  • gaul - Global Administrative Unit Layers from the Food and Agriculture Organization
  • ioc - Codes assigned by the International Olympics Committee
  • cowc - Correlates of War character
  • cown - Correlates of War numeric
  • fao - Food and Agriculture Organization
  • imf - International Monetary Fund
  • ar5 - Fifth Assessment Report (AR5)
  • address_format - Address format
  • eu_member - European Union Member
  • data_protection - Data Protection
  • vat_rates - Value-Added Tax
  • emoji - Emoji Flag

Data Sources

• Currency Data (27th Sep, 2016): http://www.currency-iso.org
• Emoji Flags (27th Sep, 2016): http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html
• World Borders (27th Sep, 2016): http://thematicmapping.org/downloads/world_borders.php
• GeoJson & SVG Flags (27th Sep, 2016): https://github.com/mledoze/countries/tree/master/data
• Main Country Data, Regions, and Divisions (27th Sep, 2016): https://github.com/hexorx/countries
• Other Resources:
  • https://en.wikipedia.org
  • https://github.com/annexare/Countries
  • https://github.com/umpirsky/country-list
  • https://github.com/datasets/country-list
  • https://github.com/datasets/country-codes
  • https://github.com/sripaulgit/country-codes
  • https://github.com/alexrabarts/iso_country_codes
  • https://github.com/vincentarelbundock/countrycode
  • https://github.com/lukes/ISO-3166-Countries-with-Regional-Codes

Upgrade

• Upgrading To v3.x From v2.x

  No major changes, same API with 100% backward compatibility. Note that PHP v7.0 is now minimum requirement.

• Upgrading To v2.x From v1.x

  Whole package re-written from scratch, just drop any previous code and start using the new clean, and intuitive API.

Changelog

Refer to the Changelog for a full history of the project.

Support

The following support channels are available at your fingertips:

• Chat on Slack
• Help on Email
• Follow on Twitter

Contributing & Protocols

Thank you for considering contributing to this project! The contribution guide can be found in CONTRIBUTING.md.

Bug reports, feature requests, and pull requests are very welcome.

• Versioning
• Pull Requests
• Coding Standards
• Feature Requests
• Git Flow

Security Vulnerabilities

If you discover a security vulnerability within this project, please send an e-mail to [email protected]. All security vulnerabilities will be promptly addressed.

About Rinvex

Rinvex is a software solutions startup, specialized in integrated enterprise solutions for SMEs established in Alexandria, Egypt since June 2016. We believe that our drive The Value, The Reach, and The Impact is what differentiates us and unleash the endless possibilities of our philosophy through the power of software. We like to call it Innovation At The Speed Of Life. That’s how we do our share of advancing humanity.

License

This software is released under The MIT License (MIT).

(c) 2016-2022 Rinvex LLC, Some rights reserved.