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A simple class for returning ISO2 and ISO3 country codes and names. Great for populating HTML drop down country lists.

Features

• Complete ISO2/ISO3 lists with mappings to the corresponding country names
• Get mappings for the EU, Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia & Oceania
• Filter out countries you don't want
• Move preferred countries to the top of the returned list

Installation

Install Composer (assuming you haven't already got it):

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Add IsoCountries to your composer.json file via Packagist:

{
    "require": {
        "brightfishsoftware/isocountries": "dev-master"
    }
}

or link to the repository directly:

{
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "git",
            "url": "https://github.com/brightfishsoftware/isocountries"
        }
    ],
    "require": {
        "brightfishsoftware/isocountries": "dev-master"
    }
}

Run "composer install".

Examples

Get All Countries

<?php
use BrightfishSoftware\IsoCountries;

$countries = new IsoCountries;
print_r($countries->get()); // as ISO3
print_r($countries->get(IsoCountries::RETURN_AS_ISO2)); // as ISO2

Move Country To Top

<?php
use BrightfishSoftware\IsoCountries;

$countries = new IsoCountries;
print_r($countries->toTop('GBR')->get());

Exclude Countries

<?php
use BrightfishSoftware\IsoCountries;

$countries = new IsoCountries;
print_r($countries->exclude(['AFG', 'ALA', 'ALB'])->get());

Get All EU Member States

<?php
use BrightfishSoftware\IsoCountries;

$countries = new IsoCountries;
print_r($countries->getEu()); // all EU
print_r($countries->toTop('GBR')->getEu()); // all EU but move GBR to top

Note: getEurope(), getNorthAmerica(), getSouthAmerica(), getAfrica(), getAsia() and getOceania() are also available.

Get Country Name From Code

<?php
use BrightfishSoftware\IsoCountries;

$countries = new IsoCountries;
echo $countries->getName('GBR');
echo $countries->getName('GB');

Get Code From Country Name

<?php
use BrightfishSoftware\IsoCountries;

$countries = new IsoCountries;
echo $countries->getIso3Code('United Kingdom');
echo $countries->getIso2Code('United Kingdom');

License

Copyright (c) 2014, Brightfish Software/Ed Eliot All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

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