Airports

This library is an auto-generated PHP abstract class that contains the global IATA Aiport database in pure PHP code.

The database is pulled from the ICAO Airport database published by mwgg at github.com/mwgg/Airports.

Last update: 2024-02-09

Note: we haven't tested if this is faster than loading from a raw .json file or a SQLite database. However, it definitely simplifies our deployment processes. Please feel free to run benchmarks and submit pull requests!

Installation

composer require anglemx/airports

Usage

After installing it with Composer, simply import it into your code.

use Angle\Airports\AirportLibrary;

Find a single airport from a known IATA code

/** @var \Angle\Airports\Airport $airport */
$airport = AirportLibrary::find('LMM');

An airport entry contains:

var_dump($airport);

/**
object(Angle\Airports\Airport)(10) {
  ["icao"]=>
  string(4) "MMLM"
  ["iata"]=>
  string(3) "LMM"
  ["name"]=>
  string(38) "Valle del Fuerte International Airport"
  ["city"]=>
  string(10) "Los Mochis"
  ["state"]=>
  string(7) "Sinaloa"
  ["country"]=>
  string(2) "MX"
  ["elevation"]=>
  int(16)
  ["lat"]=>
  float(25.6851997375)
  ["lon"]=>
  float(-109.081001282)
  ["tz"]=>
  string(16) "America/Mazatlan"
}
*/

// If needed, the `Airport` object can also be casted as an array:

var_dump($airport->toArray());

/**
array(10) {
  ["iata"]=>
  string(3) "LMM"
  ["icao"]=>
  string(4) "MMLM"
  ["name"]=>
  string(38) "Valle del Fuerte International Airport"
  ["city"]=>
  string(10) "Los Mochis"
  ["state"]=>
  string(7) "Sinaloa"
  ["country"]=>
  string(2) "MX"
  ["elevation"]=>
  int(16)
  ["lat"]=>
  float(25.6851997375)
  ["lon"]=>
  float(-109.081001282)
  ["tz"]=>
  string(16) "America/Mazatlan"
}
*/

Find all the airports in a country

/** @var \Angle\Airports\Airport[] $airports */
$airports = AirportLibrary::findByCountry('MX');

Returns an array of airports for the specified country, with the IATA code as the key of each entry.

Get the full airport list

$airports = AirportLibrary::getFullList();

Returns an array of all the airports (as arrays, not objects) in the list, with the IATA code as the key of each entry.

Build / Update

Requirements:

• ext-curl
• ext-json

Run the script at:

$> php build/build.php

This will download the newest copy of the source airports.json from the GitHub repository into a temporary file, it will parse it and it will replace the placeholder found in build/AirportLibrary.php to write the final auto-generated file to src/AirportLibrary.php.

Do not modify the file in src/AirportLibrary.php directly. Instead modify the template file in the build/ directory, and then run the build.php script.

We're targeting PHP 5.3 even thought it's quite old at this point, in order to maintain compatibility with older codebases. This means:

• Not using PHP7's constant arrays or any other modern features that could speed up the performance of the library.
• Using PHPUnit 4 even thought it's deprecated by now.

Testing

The library is very simple, but we wrote some "tests" just for the heck of it. These require PHPUnit 4.

$> composer install

$> ./vendor/bin/phpunit tests/AirportLibraryTest

Credits

The source information is pulled from the ICAO Airport database published by mwgg at github.com/mwgg/Airports.

License

MIT License. © 2019 Angle Consulting.