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A Belgian address parser library in PHP.

Requirements

• PHP 8.2 or higher

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require baikho/belgian-address-parser-php

Usage

// Create a parser instance
$parser = new \Baikho\BelgianAddressParser\Parser();

// Parse an address
$parsed = $parser->parse('Andreas Vesaliusstraat 47, 3000 Leuven, België');

// Output the parsed components
print_r($parsed);
Array
(
    [recipient] => 
    [street] => Andreas Vesaliusstraat
    [number] => 47
    [box] => 
    [postal_code] => 3000
    [city] => Leuven
    [country] => België
)

// Validate the address
$validation = $parser->validate($parsed);
if ($validation['valid']) {
    echo "Address is valid!\n";
} else {
    echo "Address has issues: " . implode(', ', $validation['errors']) . "\n";
}

// Format the address back to string
$formatted = $parser->format($parsed);
echo $formatted;