I got the inspiration of updating and sharing this PHP Class after a good
Don Jajo of mine did.... I thought i should at least spare some time as he did to FORK the repo via
https://github.com/donjajo/NGStatesLGA so i can contribute to the PHP Class as someone wished if the methods can be at least Chain-able. And now, its not only Chain-able but i added and modify some methods...
User Guide
Do not mind as the code samples may look like as i am not so good in blogging
-- require "nsl.php";
-- $nsl = new NSL('nsl_data') ; // pass as argument path/to/nsl_data file without extention, only json format supported for now
Getting Results
To get raw result as it is fetched from the nsl_data file to do your manipulation yourself, use
-- $result = $nsl->get();
To get all the states
-- $result = $nsl->state()->get(); // returns array of states
To get states and their capital
-- $result = $nsl->stateAndCapital()->get();
To get local gov under a state
-- $result = $nsl->stateLga('state_name')->get();
check in the code to see comment on every method for the function they perform
Counting Results
To count the number of result, chain the countResult() before the get() method, do like below
-- $result_num = $nsl->stateLga('state_name')->countResult()->get();
Formatting Output
Output can be formatted in JSON and CSV(comma seperated values) . the standard output format is ARRAY.. ARRAY Object will be added in the update to come
example formatting;
-- $result = $nsl->stateLga('state_name')->stdout('json')->get();
NB: only normal array and one level up associate array result can be output via the csv stdout format e.g array('mike', 'gattel'); and array(array('mike' => 'gattel'), array())
Get NSL on GitHub
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