GhRegionsDistrict

Laravel package for retreiving Ghana's regions and districts

Installation

PHP 5.4+ and Composer are required.

To get the latest version of this package add the following block of code to the require block of your project's composer.json

"wapnen/GHRegionsDistrict": "1.0.*"

You'll then need to run composer install or composer update to download it and have the autoloader updated.

Once GhRegionsDistrict is installed, you need to register the service provider. Open up config/app.php and add the following to the providers key.

• Wapnen\GhRegionDistrict\GhRegionDistrictServiceProvider::class,

Configuration

To start using this package, you'll need to publish all vendor assets:

$ php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Wapnen\GhRegionDistrict\GhRegionDistrictServiceProvider"

Now migrate your database to include the regions and districts tables

$ php artisan migrate

Add the following to your application's Databaseseeder.php file

        $this->call(RegionTableSeeder::class);
        $this->call(District1TableSeeder::class);
        $this->call(District2TableSeeder::class);	
        $this->call(District3TableSeeder::class);
        $this->call(District4TableSeeder::class);
        $this->call(District5TableSeeder::class);
        $this->call(District6TableSeeder::class);
        $this->call(District7TableSeeder::class);
        $this->call(District8TableSeeder::class);
        $this->call(District9TableSeeder::class);
        $this->call(District10TableSeeder::class);

run the following command to Autoload your files

composer dump-autoload

Finally run the following command to seed to your database

$ php artisan db:seed

Usage

To retrieve all the regions

$regions = DB::table('regions')->get();

To retrieve one region

$region = DB::table('regions')->where('name', 'Ashanti)->first();

To get all the districts for a particular region

$region = DB::table('regions')->where('name', 'Ashanti)->first();
$districts = DB::table('districts)->where('region_id' , $region->id)->get();

Contributing

Please feel free to fork this package and contribute by submitting a pull request to enhance the functionalities.

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License

The MIT License (MIT).