Country

• Overview
• Installation
• How to use
  • Country codes
  • Country
    • Creating from objects
    • Creating from string
    • Safe creation
  • Subdivisions
  • All countries
  • Timezones
• License
• Contributing

Overview

Provides ISO 3166-1 country and ISO 3166-2 subdivision value objects for PHP. A Country is a lazy handle over an Alpha-2 code that resolves its name, its Alpha-3 and numeric codes, its IANA timezones, and its subdivisions on demand. A Subdivision is the same kind of handle one level down, resolving its name, its category, and its owning country from the ISO 3166-2 code.

Construction works from any of the three code variants (Alpha-2, Alpha-3, or numeric), with automatic conversion between them. The data is generated from the ISO 3166 standard. Names are the official ISO English short names, so the values are stable and citable rather than derived. The library builds on the tiny-blocks value-object contract for immutability and structural equality, on tiny-blocks/time for timezones, and on tiny-blocks/collection for the country and subdivision collections.

Installation

composer require tiny-blocks/country

How to use

Country codes

Each country has three ISO 3166-1 representations: a two-letter Alpha2Code, a three-letter Alpha3Code, and a three-digit NumericCode. Every code converts to the other two and to its string value.

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

use TinyBlocks\Country\Alpha2Code;

$alpha2 = Alpha2Code::BRAZIL;

$alpha2->value;              # BR
$alpha2->toAlpha3()->value;  # BRA
$alpha2->toNumeric()->value; # 076
$alpha2->toString();         # BR

The numeric code keeps the ISO leading zeros as a string and exposes them as an integer through toInteger.

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

use TinyBlocks\Country\NumericCode;

$numeric = NumericCode::BRAZIL;

$numeric->value;             # 076
$numeric->toInteger();       # 76
$numeric->toAlpha2()->value; # BR
$numeric->toAlpha3()->value; # BRA

Country

A Country can be created from any code object with from, or from a string with fromString. The name, both alpha codes, the numeric code, the timezones, and the subdivisions are read through methods.

Creating from objects

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

use TinyBlocks\Country\Alpha2Code;
use TinyBlocks\Country\Country;

$country = Country::from(code: Alpha2Code::BRAZIL);

$country->name();           # Brazil
$country->alpha2()->value;  # BR
$country->alpha3()->value;  # BRA
$country->numeric()->value; # 076

The same country is produced from its Alpha-3 or numeric code, since from canonicalizes to the Alpha-2 code.

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

use TinyBlocks\Country\Country;
use TinyBlocks\Country\NumericCode;

$country = Country::from(code: NumericCode::UNITED_STATES_OF_AMERICA);

$country->name();           # United States
$country->alpha2()->value;  # US
$country->alpha3()->value;  # USA

Creating from string

fromString accepts an Alpha-2, Alpha-3, or numeric code as a string. It throws InvalidCountryCode when the string matches no known code.

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

use TinyBlocks\Country\Country;

Country::fromString(code: 'BR')->name();   # Brazil
Country::fromString(code: 'USA')->name();  # United States
Country::fromString(code: '076')->name();  # Brazil

Safe creation

Use tryFromString to validate external input without handling exceptions. It returns null when the code matches no known Alpha-2, Alpha-3, or numeric code.

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

use TinyBlocks\Country\Country;

Country::tryFromString(code: 'BR')?->alpha2()->value; # BR
Country::tryFromString(code: 'XYZ');                  # null

Subdivisions

Each Country exposes its ISO 3166-2 subdivisions as a Subdivisions collection, which may be empty for territories that have none. A Subdivision can also be created directly from its code with fromString or tryFromString.

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

use TinyBlocks\Country\Country;
use TinyBlocks\Country\Subdivision;

$subdivision = Subdivision::fromString(code: 'BR-SP');

$subdivision->code();                                              # BR-SP
$subdivision->name();                                              # São Paulo
$subdivision->category()->value;                                   # State
$subdivision->category()->isState();                               # true
$subdivision->country()->name();                                   # Brazil
$subdivision->belongsTo(country: Country::fromString(code: 'BR')); # true

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

use TinyBlocks\Country\Alpha2Code;
use TinyBlocks\Country\Country;

$subdivisions = Country::from(code: Alpha2Code::BRAZIL)->subdivisions();

$subdivisions->count();      # 27
$subdivisions->isEmpty();    # false

All countries

Countries::all returns every ISO 3166-1 country as a collection of Country handles.

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

use TinyBlocks\Country\Countries;

$countries = Countries::all();

$countries->count(); # 249

Timezones

Every Country exposes a CountryTimezones collection, built from the IANA timezone database through PHP. The first identifier is the default, and it falls back to UTC for territories without an assigned timezone.

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

use TinyBlocks\Country\Alpha2Code;
use TinyBlocks\Country\Country;

$timezones = Country::from(code: Alpha2Code::JAPAN)->timezones();

$timezones->count();                                 # 1
$timezones->default()->value;                        # Asia/Tokyo
$timezones->contains(iana: 'Asia/Tokyo');            # true
$timezones->contains(iana: 'America/New_York');      # false
$timezones->findByIdentifierOrUtc(iana: 'X')->value; # UTC

License

Country is licensed under MIT.

Contributing

Please follow the contributing guidelines to contribute to the project.