Working in Laravel and need a quick fix for a complete listing of the standard country codes? All three unique codes; ISO_3166-1_alpha-2, ISO_3166-1_alpha-3 and 3-digit numeric codes, plus the translated country names and a regular expression field used for validating postal codes are included in this repository.

Feedback is most welcome, so please feel free to inform me of any issues.

The full paths for placement of these classes are replicated within this repository. Simply merge the following files into your Laravel environment:

1. Country.php - Model (the Eloquent ORM representation of a `countries` record)
2. 1999_01_01_000000_create_countries_table.php - Migration (creates the database table)
3. CountriesSeeder.php - Database seeder (seeds the `countries` table with data)

into their respective directories of your current Laravel installation. You will likely want to add a few lines of code into your DatabaseSeeder.php file. The following code needs to go after your public function run() procedure.

    $this->call('CountriesSeeder');
    // the following line is optional
    $this->command->info('Countries table of codes, postcode validation, languages seeded! https://github.com/kedweber/laravel_seeder_country_codes');

Normally, Laravel defaults its Model creation to the App directory. Country.php uses the App namespace. If you have modified the location of your models, you will want to edit the namespace.

NOTE: If you want the standard two timestamp fields; created_at and updated_at you will want to remove the following lines from the Country model.

    /**
     * Indicates if the model should be timestamped.
     *
     * @var bool
     */
    public $timestamps = false;

WARNING: If your present database has the table named countries the following will effectively destroy the existing table and all related data

Within a standard Laravel table, all your previous migrations are recorded after the name of the file migration file. In our case the entry 1999_01_01_000000_create_countries_table does not yet exist, so we simply need to run the following command:

php artisan migrate

NOTE: If you are using the Homestead or Vagrant virtual machine, you should run this command from within your Virtual Machine.

Now that the countries table exists in your database, we can run the following command to import the data.

php artisan db:seed --class=CountriesSeeder

Only a handful of European entries are active by default in this distribution.

Migrations

Seeding

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