Seeders

This package contains the following seeders in the src/resources/database/seeds folder:

Name	Type of Entries	Contains
`Countries`	Country	All the countries in the World
`CountiesOfHungary`	Province	Hungarian counties (megye)
`CountiesOfRomania`	Province	Romanian counties (județ)
`ProvincesAndRegionsOfBelgium`	Province	Belgian Provinces & Regions (gewest/région)
`ProvincesAndTerritoriesOfCanada`	Province	Canadian Provinces & Territories (English)
`ProvincesAndTerritoriesOfCanadaFrench`	Province	Canadian Provinces & Territories (French)
`ProvincesOfIndonesia`	Province	Provinces, geographical units and regions of Indonesia
`ProvincesOfNetherlands`	Province	Provinces of Netherlands (provincie)
`StatesAndTerritoriesOfIndia`	Province	Indian States & Union territories
`StatesOfGermany`	Province	States of Germany (Bundesland)
`StatesOfUsa`	Province	States, DC, territories and military areas of the USA

The Countries Seeder

Besides using as a standard Laravel Seeder, the countries seeder can also be used as a standalone class to retrieve the countries of the world.

This standalone usage feature of the countries seeder was added in version 3.4.0

Get All Countries

Countries::all();
// [
//   'AF' => ['id' => 'AF', 'name' => 'Afghanistan', 'phonecode' => 93, 'is_eu_member' => 0],
//   'AL' => ['id' => 'AL', 'name' => 'Albania', 'phonecode' => 355, 'is_eu_member' => 0],
//   'DZ' => ['id' => 'DZ', 'name' => 'Algeria', 'phonecode' => 213, 'is_eu_member' => 0],
//   [...]
// ]

Get A Single Country By Code

Countries::byCode('AS');
// ['id' => 'AS', 'name' => 'American Samoa', 'phonecode' => 1684, 'is_eu_member' => 0]

// Input is case-insensitive:
Countries::byCode('ai');
// ['id' => 'AI', 'name' => 'Anguilla', 'phonecode' => 1264, 'is_eu_member' => 0],

// When no country exists by code, it returns NULL
Countries::byCode('nope');
// NULL

Provinces Seeder

Besides using as a standard Laravel Seeder, the various province seeders can be used as a standalone utility classes to manage the provinces of the world.

This ProvinceSeeders registry was added in version 3.4.0

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With Artisan

php artisan db:seed --class="\Konekt\Address\Seeds\Countries"

Adding To Your App's DatabaseSeeder

class DatabaseSeeder extends \Illuminate\Database\Seeder
{
    public function run()
    {
        //...
        $this->call(\Konekt\Address\Seeds\Countries::class);
        //...
    }
}

For more details refer to the seeds section in the Concord docs.