Countries.md

PHP Country Helper

Class to help you work with countries. Convert and find countries by their full name (United States), alpha codes (US or USA), or numeric cdes (840).

Quick Usage

require 'vendor/autoload.php';
$c = new STLD\PHP_Helpers\Countries;

echo $c::name('US'); // United States
echo $c::alpha('United States'); // USA
echo $c::alpha('United States',2); // US
echo $c::numeric('United States'); // 840

Full Usage

require 'vendor/autoload.php';
$c = new STLD\PHP_Helpers\Countries;

// full names - all return United States
echo $c::name('840');
echo $c::name('US');
echo $c::name('USA');
echo $c::name('United States');

// alpha 3 (default) - all return USA
echo $c::alpha('840');
echo $c::alpha('US');
echo $c::alpha('USA');
echo $c::alpha('United States');

// alpha 2  - all return US
echo $c::alpha('840',2);
echo $c::alpha('US',2);
echo $c::alpha('USA',2);
echo $c::alpha('United States',2);

// numeric  - all return 840
echo $c::numberic('840');
echo $c::numberic('US');
echo $c::numberic('USA');
echo $c::numberic('United States');

Create Country HTML Dropdown Menu

require 'vendor/autoload.php';
$c = new STLD\PHP_Helpers\Countries;

$options = '<option>(choose a country)</option>';
foreach($c::countriesArray() as $country)
{
	$options .= '<option value="'.$country[2].'">'.$country[0].'</option>'.PHP_EOL;
}

echo '<select>'.$options.'</select>';

Credits

• Country data http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1