Laravel LangCountry

Language and locale helpers ​

Below you can find all the language and locale helpers that are available in this package through the LangCountry facade.

Country ​

This will return the two character ISO-3166 code representation of the country.

php
session(['lang_country' => 'nl-NL']);
LangCountry::country(); // Will return "NL"

session(['lang_country' => 'en-GB']);
LangCountry::country(); // Will return "GB"

Country name (English) ​

This will return the English name of the country.

php
session(['lang_country' => 'nl-NL']);
LangCountry::countryName(); // Will return "The Netherlands"

session(['lang_country' => 'en-GB']);
LangCountry::countryName(); // Will return "United Kingdom"

Country name (local) ​

This will return the local name of the country.

php
session(['lang_country' => 'nl-NL']);
LangCountry::countryNameLocal(); // Will return "Nederland"

session(['lang_country' => 'nl-BE']);
LangCountry::countryNameLocal(); // Will return "België"

session(['lang_country' => 'fr-BE']);
LangCountry::countryNameLocal(); // Will return "Belgique"

Language ​

This will return the two character ISO-639 code representation of the language or a four char representation.

php
session(['lang_country' => 'nl-NL']);
LangCountry::lang(); // Will return "nl"

session(['lang_country' => 'en-GB']);
LangCountry::lang(); // Will return "en"

TIP

You can pass a second argument to override the lang_country. This can be helpful in some cases where you don't want to use the current lang_country that is stored in the session.

php
session(['lang_country' => 'nl-NL']);
LangCountry::lang('fr-BE'); // Will return "fr"

Language name (local) ​

This will return the name of the language translated in the language in question. You can use this for nice country-selectors in your app.

php
session(['lang_country' => 'de-CH']);
LangCountry::name(); // Will return "Schweiz - Deutsch"

session(['lang_country' => 'nl-BE']);
LangCountry::name(); // Will return "België - Vlaams"

session(['lang_country' => 'fr-BE']);
LangCountry::name(); // Will return "Belgique - Français"

Emoji flag ​

This will return the emoji flag of the country.

php
session(['lang_country' => 'nl-NL']);
LangCountry::emojiFlag(); // Will return "🇳🇱"

session(['lang_country' => 'en-GB']);
LangCountry::emojiFlag(); // Will return "🇬🇧"

All available languages ​

This will return a Collection with all the available languages including their properties that are set in the config file under allowed.

php
LangCountry::availableLanguages(); 
// Will return a Collection with all the available languages
Illuminate\Support\Collection {
    all: [
      [
        "country" => "NL",
        "country_name" => "The Netherlands",
        "country_name_local" => "Nederland",
        "lang" => "nl",
        "name" => "Nederlands",
        "lang_country" => "nl-NL",
        "emoji_flag" => "🇳🇱",
        "currency_code" => "EUR",
        "currency_symbol" => "€",
        "currency_symbol_local" => "€",
        "currency_name" => "Euro",
        "currency_name_local" => "Euro",
      ],
      [
        "country" => "BE",
        "country_name" => "Belgium",
        "country_name_local" => "België",
        "lang" => "nl",
        "name" => "België - Vlaams",
        "lang_country" => "nl-BE",
        "emoji_flag" => "🇧🇪",
        "currency_code" => "EUR",
        "currency_symbol" => "€",
        "currency_symbol_local" => "€",
        "currency_name" => "Euro",
        "currency_name_local" => "Euro",
      ],
      //...
  ]
 }

Language selector helper ​

This will return an array with the current language, country and name and also the other available (set in config file under allowed) language, country and name.

php
LangCountry::langSelectorHelper();
// Will return an array with all the available languages
[
    "current" => [
      "country" => "NL",
      "country_name" => "The Netherlands",
      "country_name_local" => "Nederland",
      "lang" => "nl",
      "name" => "Nederlands",
      "lang_country" => "nl-NL",
      "emoji_flag" => "🇳🇱",
      "currency_code" => "EUR",
      "currency_symbol" => "€",
      "currency_symbol_local" => "€",
      "currency_name" => "Euro",
      "currency_name_local" => "Euro",
    ],
    "available" => [
      [
        "country" => "BE",
        "country_name" => "Belgium",
        "country_name_local" => "België",
        "lang" => "nl",
        "name" => "België - Vlaams",
        "lang_country" => "nl-BE",
        "emoji_flag" => "🇧🇪",
        "currency_code" => "EUR",
        "currency_symbol" => "€",
        "currency_symbol_local" => "€",
        "currency_name" => "Euro",
        "currency_name_local" => "Euro",
      ],
      [
        "country" => "BE",
        "country_name" => "Belgium",
        "country_name_local" => "Belgique",
        "lang" => "fr",
        "name" => "Belgique - Français",
        "lang_country" => "fr-BE",
        "emoji_flag" => "🇧🇪",
        "currency_code" => "EUR",
        "currency_symbol" => "€",
        "currency_symbol_local" => "€",
        "currency_name" => "Euro",
        "currency_name_local" => "Euro",
      ],
      [
        "country" => "GB",
        "country_name" => "United Kingdom",
        "country_name_local" => "United Kingdom",
        "lang" => "en",
        "name" => "English",
        "lang_country" => "en-GB",
        "emoji_flag" => "🇬🇧",
        "currency_code" => "GBP",
        "currency_symbol" => "£",
        "currency_symbol_local" => "£",
        "currency_name" => "Pound Stirling",
        "currency_name_local" => "Pound",
      ],
      
      //...
]