(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7, PHP 8, PECL intl >= 1.0.0)
Locale::getDisplayRegion -- locale_get_display_region — Returns an appropriately localized display name for region of the input locale
DescriptionObject-oriented style
Parameterslocale
The locale to return a display region for.
displayLocale
Optional format locale to use to display the region name
Display name of the region for the locale in the format appropriate for displayLocale, or false on failure.
displayLocale is nullable now. Examples
Example #1 locale_get_display_region() example
<?php
echo locale_get_display_region('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'en');
echo ";\n";
echo locale_get_display_region('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'fr');
echo ";\n";
echo locale_get_display_region('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'de');
?>
Example #2 OO example
<?php
echo Locale::getDisplayRegion('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'en');
echo ";\n";
echo Locale::getDisplayRegion('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'fr');
echo ";\n";
echo Locale::getDisplayRegion('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'de');
?>
The above example will output:
mark at SHOULDREMOVE dot moderndeveloperllc dot com ¶10 years ago
You don't have to have a fully-formed locale for the first parameter. This makes the function useful for getting the country name from any locale:
<?php
var_dump(Locale::getDisplayRegion('-US', 'fr'));string 'États-Unis' (length=11)
?>
info at domain name (see note) ¶
8 years ago
in fact , I would do exactly the opposite : find the country code (iso3166) from the country name. Found on the web, one solution is to use a table of correspondence between the country code and the country name for each language.
There are too many countries and language code for this type of table.
With a PHP function , the convertion can be performed as well:
function countryNameToISO3166($country_name, $language) {
if (strlen($language) != 2) {
//Language must be on 2 caracters
return NULL;
}
//Set uppercase if never
$language = strtoupper($language);
$countrycode_list = array('AF', 'AX', 'AL', 'DZ', 'AS', 'AD', 'AO', 'AI', 'AQ', 'AG', 'AR', 'AM', 'AW', 'AU', 'AT', 'AZ', 'BS', 'BH', 'BD', 'BB', 'BY', 'BE', 'BZ', 'BJ', 'BM', 'BT', 'BO', 'BQ', 'BA', 'BW', 'BV', 'BR', 'IO', 'BN', 'BG', 'BF', 'BI', 'KH', 'CM', 'CA', 'CV', 'KY', 'CF', 'TD', 'CL', 'CN', 'CX', 'CC', 'CO', 'KM', 'CG', 'CD', 'CK', 'CR', 'CI', 'HR', 'CU', 'CW', 'CY', 'CZ', 'DK', 'DJ', 'DM', 'DO', 'EC', 'EG', 'SV', 'GQ', 'ER', 'EE', 'ET', 'FK', 'FO', 'FJ', 'FI', 'FR', 'GF', 'PF', 'TF', 'GA', 'GM', 'GE', 'DE', 'GH', 'GI', 'GR', 'GL', 'GD', 'GP', 'GU', 'GT', 'GG', 'GN', 'GW', 'GY', 'HT', 'HM', 'VA', 'HN', 'HK', 'HU', 'IS', 'IN', 'ID', 'IR', 'IQ', 'IE', 'IM', 'IL', 'IT', 'JM', 'JP', 'JE', 'JO', 'KZ', 'KE', 'KI', 'KP', 'KR', 'KW', 'KG', 'LA', 'LV', 'LB', 'LS', 'LR', 'LY', 'LI', 'LT', 'LU', 'MO', 'MK', 'MG', 'MW', 'MY', 'MV', 'ML', 'MT', 'MH', 'MQ', 'MR', 'MU', 'YT', 'MX', 'FM', 'MD', 'MC', 'MN', 'ME', 'MS', 'MA', 'MZ', 'MM', 'NA', 'NR', 'NP', 'NL', 'NC', 'NZ', 'NI', 'NE', 'NG', 'NU', 'NF', 'MP', 'NO', 'OM', 'PK', 'PW', 'PS', 'PA', 'PG', 'PY', 'PE', 'PH', 'PN', 'PL', 'PT', 'PR', 'QA', 'RE', 'RO', 'RU', 'RW', 'BL', 'SH', 'KN', 'LC', 'MF', 'PM', 'VC', 'WS', 'SM', 'ST', 'SA', 'SN', 'RS', 'SC', 'SL', 'SG', 'SX', 'SK', 'SI', 'SB', 'SO', 'ZA', 'GS', 'SS', 'ES', 'LK', 'SD', 'SR', 'SJ', 'SZ', 'SE', 'CH', 'SY', 'TW', 'TJ', 'TZ', 'TH', 'TL', 'TG', 'TK', 'TO', 'TT', 'TN', 'TR', 'TM', 'TC', 'TV', 'UG', 'UA', 'AE', 'GB', 'US', 'UM', 'UY', 'UZ', 'VU', 'VE', 'VN', 'VG', 'VI', 'WF', 'EH', 'YE', 'ZM', 'ZW');
$ISO3166 = NULL;
//Loop all country codes
foreach ($countrycode_list as $countrycode) {
$locale_cc = Locale::getDisplayRegion('-' . $countrycode, $language);
//Case insensitive
if (strcasecmp($country_name, $locale_cc) == 0) {
$ISO3166 = $countrycode;
break;
}
}
//return NULL if not found or country code
return $ISO3166;
}
Tests
$cc=countryNameToISO3166('Costa Rica','US');
echo '<br>(English) Country code for Costa Rica is '.$cc;
$cc=countryNameToISO3166('Royaume-Uni','FR');
echo '<br>(Français) Country code for Royaume-Uni is '.$cc;
$cc=countryNameToISO3166('Frankreich','DE');
echo '<br>(Deutsch) Country code for Frankreich is '.$cc;
//Wrong language
$cc=countryNameToISO3166('Royaume-Uni','US');
echo '<br>(English) Country code for Royaume-Uni is '.var_dump($cc);
returns
(English) Country code for Costa Rica is CR
(Français) Country code for Royaume-Uni is GB
(Deutsch) Country code for Frankreich is FR
(English) Country code for Royaume-Uni is NULL
Hope it can help someone other
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