Brought to you by Dimitar Kunchev with the simple purpose of having a function that returns country ISO2 code for given world coordinates. Without having to call external APIs.
The extension is built around libgdal (which you need to install) and requires a borders shape file configured. The repository contains one, downloaded from http://thematicmapping.org/downloads/world_borders.php
- PHP
- libgdal
- gdal-dev
- Make sure you have
libgdalandlibgdal-devinstalled phpize./configuremakemake install- add to your
php.inifile the extension like this:extension=countrygeocode.so - Configure path to a borders file in your php.init:
countrygeocode.borders=path-to-the-shp-file. Make sure it is accompanied with its respectiveshxand etc files. This repository contains all the needed files in a ZIP archive you can extract to a location of your choice
Call country_geocode(float latitude, float longitude) - return value is NULL on error, empty string if coordinates do not match any country or 2-letter ISO code on success
country_geocode(-5.937671, -68.323475);
\\ returns "BR" for Brazil
country_geocode(42.804594, 24.795333);
\\ returns "BG" for Bulgaria- The provided world borders data set comes from http://thematicmapping.org/downloads/world_borders.php under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.
- The source code is inspired by https://github.com/che0/countries
- Implementation as PHP extension is by Dimitar Kunchev
Dimitar Kunchev
This extension is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details
Pull requests and issues are more than welcome.