Standardize Data Formats in Your Laravel Application

Laravel Formatters is a package by Michael Rubel that provides a collection of classes you can use to standardize data formats in your Laravel application:

 1use MichaelRubel\Formatters\Collection\DateFormatter;
 2use MichaelRubel\Formatters\Collection\DateTimeFormatter;
 3use MichaelRubel\Formatters\Collection\LocaleNumberFormatter;
 4use MichaelRubel\Formatters\Collection\TableColumnFormatter;
 5 
 6 
 7format(DateFormatter::class, now())
 8// "2021-11-09"
 9 
10format(DateTimeFormatter::class, now())
11// "2021-11-09 02:28"
12 
13format(LocaleNumberFormatter::class, 1)
14// "1.00"
15 
16config()->set('app.locale', 'es');
17format(LocaleNumberFormatter::class, 1);
18// "1,00"
19 
20format(TableColumnFormatter::class, 'created_at')
21// "Created at"

If you want to extend a built-in formatter provided by this package, you can extend the service provider definition to override it:

1use MichaelRubel\Formatters\Collection\DateTimeFormatter;
2 
3$this->app->extend(DateTimeFormatter::class, function ($formatter) {
4    $formatter->datetime_format = 'Y.m.d H:i';
5 
6    return $formatter;
7});

You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub.

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Provide Country and Other Locale Data in Laravel

 Provide Country and Other Locale Data in Laravel

orld is a package providing a list of the countries, states, cities, currencies, and timezones. World integrates data with Eloquent models via the database and provides facades, helpers, and API routes:

 1use Nnjeim\World\World;
 2 
 3$action =  World::countries();
 4/*
 5{
 6	"success": true,
 7	"message": "countries",
 8	"data": [
 9		{
10			"id": 1,
11			"name": "Afghanistan"
12		},
13		{
14			"id": 2,
15			"name": "Åland Islands"
16		},
17      ...
18	],
19}
20*/

Here's another example from the readme using filters to fetch a country and cities within the country:

 1// Fetch a country and cities
 2$action =  World::countries([
 3    'fields' => 'states,cities',
 4    'filters' => [
 5        'iso2' => 'FR',
 6    ]
 7]);
 8/*
 9{
10    "success": true,
11    "message": "countries",
12    "data": [
13        "id": 77,
14        "name": "France",
15        "states": [
16             {
17                "id": 1271,
18                "name": "Alo"
19            },
20            {
21                "id": 1272,
22                "name": "Alsace"
23            },
24        ],
25        "cities": [
26            {
27                "id": 25148,
28                "name": "Abondance"
29            },
30            {
31                "id": 25149,
32                "name": "Abrest"
33            },
34            ...
35        ]
36    ],
37}
38*/

This package also supports localization (see the readme for supported locales), provides API endpoints for all the data, and has helpers for formatting phone numbers, etc.

You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub.

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