What is Laravel Countries?

Laravel Countries is a package that provides everything you need to kickstart a new project with comprehensive country information, including translations. Optimized for Laravel, it ensures efficient access and management of country data.

The package stores all data directly in your database, allowing you to easily link it to any other table in a simple and familiar way using Laravel’s Eloquent ORM.

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Use Cases

🌍 Geolocation and Custom Maps

Easily integrate latitude and longitude data with mapping services, like Google Maps, to visualize countries. With the precise SVG outlines of each country, you can create interactive, detailed maps where each country is perfectly highlighted and positioned. Ideal for geolocation services, travel apps, or geographic data visualization.

🌐 Flexible Data Management

While the package doesn’t update automatically, developers can easily keep their country data up to date with a simple query update. This is perfect for applications that need to manage custom datasets or require occasional updates without full automation.

🔍 Advanced Country Search Filters

The package comes equipped with several pre-built queries, such as whereUuid, whereName, and whereIso, enabling developers to filter countries by name, ISO code (Alpha-2, Alpha-3, numeric), phone code, and more. This is ideal for building search functionalities in large-scale applications like CRMs, directories, or global marketplaces.

📞 Phone Number and ISO Validation

Validate phone numbers and country codes directly using the package's integrated data. The wherePhoneCode query allows easy validation and management of international phone numbers, making this a great fit for global platforms dealing with client or customer information.

🏴 Customizable Flag and Emoji Support

Easily display national flags using SVGs or flag emojis with the built-in functionality. This feature is perfect for applications that require country-specific branding or need to enhance the UI with flag icons in forms, profiles, or country selectors.

🚛 Shipping and Regional Searches

For applications like e-commerce platforms, the package’s geographical queries allow for advanced regional searches and filters. Use the geographical scope to quickly retrieve countries based on regions, continents, or proximity, optimizing delivery options, taxes, or regional preferences in your app.

🏴 Customizable Flags and Colors

Create visually rich applications using the emoji flags and flag color data (HEX, RGB). This is useful for building country profiles, analytics dashboards, or travel-related applications that need a custom design touch.

Developer Experience

🔗 Seamless Integration with Laravel

Built specifically for Laravel, this package integrates effortlessly with Eloquent and Laravel's Query Builder, allowing developers to work with country data in a way that feels natural within the Laravel ecosystem.

⚡ Optimized for Performance

All data is stored in your local database, ensuring fast queries and minimal overhead in your application. No external API calls are required to access country data, improving performance and reliability.

📚 Extensive Documentation

We provide clear, concise documentation with code snippets and examples to help you get started quickly. Whether you need a simple query or a more complex geographical search, the documentation covers everything with step-by-step instructions.

🔎 Customizable Queries

With a wide range of pre-built scopes like scopeWhereUuid, scopeWhereName, and scopeWhereIso, filtering and querying country data is extremely flexible. You can easily tailor the queries to meet the needs of your specific application.

🛠️ Developer-Friendly Features

• Easy Installation: Get up and running in minutes with a straightforward installation process.
• Configurable: Customize the package to suit your application's needs without extensive configuration.
• Localization Support: Country names and other attributes come with built-in translations, making the package ready for global applications.
• Active Community Support: With a growing community of developers, you're never alone when using the package. Contributions and suggestions are always welcome!

Performance

💾 Local Data Storage

All country data is stored directly in your local database, eliminating the need for slow, unreliable external API requests. This ensures your queries are as fast as possible, providing near-instant access to country information.

⚙️ Optimized Queries

The package takes full advantage of Eloquent’s efficient query builder, ensuring that each query runs as quickly as possible. Common operations like searching by ISO code or fetching geographical data are indexed and optimized to reduce latency.

🌐 No External Dependencies

Unlike many packages that rely on third-party APIs for real-time data, Laravel Countries keeps everything in-house. This reduces the number of HTTP requests your app needs to make, saving on network latency and API call costs.

⚡ Caching Support

The package can be easily integrated with Laravel’s caching system, allowing you to cache frequently accessed country data for even faster retrieval. This is especially useful in applications that handle large amounts of requests or serve data across multiple regions.

📥 Lazy Loading and Eager Loading

Using Eloquent’s lazy loading and eager loading features, you can control exactly when and how much data is loaded into memory. This minimizes overhead, ensuring that your app only loads what it needs, when it needs it, keeping your memory footprint low.

📈 Scalable for High Traffic Applications

Laravel Countries is designed to scale with your application. Whether you’re handling a few hundred requests or millions, the efficient structure of the package ensures it can handle high traffic volumes without sacrificing speed or reliability.

What About Laravel?

Laravel Countries is designed with Laravel in mind, leveraging the framework’s powerful features to deliver a seamless experience for developers. Here are some key aspects of how this package enhances your Laravel applications:

Eloquent Integration

The package utilizes Laravel's Eloquent ORM, allowing developers to interact with country data using familiar methods and patterns. You can perform complex queries, relationships, and data manipulation with ease.

Service Providers and Facades

Built-in service providers and facades make it easy to integrate the package into your Laravel application. This ensures that all functionalities are readily available without additional setup.

Migrations and Seeders

The package comes with migration files, allowing you to create the necessary tables in your database with minimal effort. You can also use seeders to populate your tables with sample data, helping you get started quickly.

Configuration Options

Easily customize the package’s behavior through configuration files, enabling you to adapt it to the specific needs of your application.

Learn More About Laravel

If you're looking to deepen your knowledge of Laravel and its features, check out these resources:

• Laravel Official Documentation - The best place to start for all things Laravel.
• Laracasts - A comprehensive learning platform with video tutorials covering Laravel and PHP development.
• Laravel News - Stay updated with the latest news, tutorials, and events in the Laravel community.

By leveraging Laravel's rich ecosystem, Laravel Countries ensures that you can build powerful, data-driven applications with minimal friction.