bodunde/states-and-local-govt

Populates your DB with all the states in Nigeria and their local governments. It also creates the models for you

Laravel-Nig-States-LocalGovt

A Laravel Package that populates your database with all the states in the Nigeria and their corresponding local governments., _(*1)

Setup

• Include package in your project by running composer require bodunde/states-and-local-govt
• Add Bodunde\SLG\SLGServiceProvider::class to provider in app.php under config directory
• Publish package resources by running php artisan vendor:publish. Running this command would publish models, migrations and seeders.
• Run published migrations php artisan migrate
• Regenerate your autoload files composer dump-autoload
• Run published database seeders php artisan db:seed --class=SlgTableSeeder

Usage

• Import models into your controllers

Note: If your root namespace in your application isn't app make sure you go to the models and modify the namespace, _(*2)

...
use App\State;
use App\LocalGovt;

...
...
// fetch all states
$states = State::all();

// fetch state by id
$state = State::find($id) // where $id = 1

// fetch state by name
$state = State::findByName("Lagos State");

//get state local governments
$lg = $state->localGovernments;

// get all local governments
$lgs = LocalGovt::all();

// fetch local government by id
$lg = LocalGovt::find($id) // where $id = 1

// fetch local government state
$state = $lg->state;