Postcodes

A Laravel 5+ facade/service provider for the API methods at postcodes.io - useful for UK postcode validation and reverse geocoding: that is, determining postcode from lat, long coordinates. No fiddling around with api keys, authentication, necessary..., _(*1)

With thanks to https://postcodes.io, _(*2)

Installation

composer require codescheme/postcodes

For Laravel 5.5 Postcodes will be automatically discovered., _(*3)

Edit /config/app.php and add the service provider to your providers array., _(*4)

'providers' => [
    Codescheme\Postcodes\PostcodeServiceProvider::class,
]

Also here, add the alias:, _(*5)

'aliases' => [
    'Postcode' => Codescheme\Postcodes\Facades\Postcode::class,
]

Basic Example Laravel Usage

Return data for a given postcode, _(*6)

Route::get('/postcode', function(){
    $data = Postcode::postcodeLookup('SE21 8JL');
    print_r($data);
    return null;      
});

Methods

Postcode::validate('SE31 9AX'); //returns boolean
Postcode::postcodeLookup('SE21 8JL');
Postcode::nearest('SE21 8JL');
Postcode::reverseGeocode(-0.397913, 51.44015); // long,lat
Postcode::autocomplete('RG1 3');
Postcode::outcodeLookup('SE21');

$postcodes = ['OX49 5NU', 'M32 0JG', 'NE30 1DP'];
Postcode::postcodeLookupBulk($postcodes);

$coordinates = [
    ['longitude' =>  0.629834723775309, 'latitude' => 51.7923246977375],
    ['longitude' => -2.49690382054704,  'latitude' => 53.5351312861402]
    ];
Postcode::reverseGeocodeBulk($coordinates);