mlocati/countrynames

A PHP library to work with localized country names

PHP library to recognize localized country names thanks to Unicode CLDR

Features

• Understand a lot of languages (almost 150 - but some language may not be complete).
• Works with PHP 5.3+
• Requires the mb_string PHP extension (or any package that implements mb_strtolower for UTF-8)

Install

With composer

composer require mlocati/countrynames, _(*1)

Without composer

<?php

require_once 'autoload.php';

Sample usage

use MLocati\CountryNames\CountryList;

require_once 'autoload.php'; // Not required if you use composer

$italianList = new CountryList('it');
$italianCountry = $italianList->getCountryByName('italia');

$englishList = new CountryList('en');
$englishCountry = $englishList->getCountryByCode($italianCountry->getCode());

echo $englishCountry->getCanonicalName(); // Dumps 'Italy'