How to sort full_name_english in magento 2 country directory.?

Question

I need some help in the module Magento directory. Actually I am able to sort id,two_letter_abbreviation & three_letter_abbreviation by setOrder to the collection which is defined in the helper class which is calling from the model.

i.e below is a function in the model class

 public function getCountriesInfo()
    {
        $countriesInfo = [];
    /** @var \Magento\Store\Model\Store $store */
    $store = $this-&gt;storeManager-&gt;getStore();

    $storeLocale = $this-&gt;scopeConfig-&gt;getValue(
        'general/locale/code',
        \Magento\Store\Model\ScopeInterface::SCOPE_STORES,
        $store-&gt;getCode()
    );

    $countries = $this-&gt;directoryHelper-&gt;getCountryCollection($store);
    $regions = $this-&gt;directoryHelper-&gt;getRegionData();
    foreach ($countries as $data) {
        $countryInfo = $this-&gt;setCountryInfo($data, $regions, $storeLocale);
        $countriesInfo[] = $countryInfo;
    }

    return $countriesInfo;
}

Below is a function define in helper class.

public function getCountryCollection($store = null)
{
    if (!$this->_countryCollection->isLoaded()) {
        $this->_countryCollection->loadByStore($store);
    }
    return $this->_countryCollection;
}

I the above, i can sort by setOrder like $this->_countryCollection->setOrder('country_id,'ASC')

or by iso2_code & iso3_code. these three are the column of directory country table

My question is that how to sort full_name_english? please help me out. After that, I will override the file.

  [
        {
            "id": "AD",
            "two_letter_abbreviation": "AD",
            "three_letter_abbreviation": "AND",
            "full_name_locale": "Andorra",
            "full_name_english": "Andorra"
        },
        {
            "id": "AE",
            "two_letter_abbreviation": "AE",
            "three_letter_abbreviation": "ARE",
            "full_name_locale": "United Arab Emirates",
            "full_name_english": "United Arab Emirates"
        },
        {
            "id": "AF",
            "two_letter_abbreviation": "AF",
            "three_letter_abbreviation": "AFG",
            "full_name_locale": "Afghanistan",
            "full_name_english": "Afghanistan"
        },
        {
            "id": "AG",
            "two_letter_abbreviation": "AG",
            "three_letter_abbreviation": "ATG",
            "full_name_locale": "Antigua & Barbuda",
            "full_name_english": "Antigua & Barbuda"
        }]

Update 1: Still did not get any solution

Update 2: I will update the answer to this once I have done with that.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 04 '21 at 13:59

Override the country model class using the plugin.

Put the below code in your custom module di.xml

<type name="Magento\Directory\Model\CountryInformationAcquirer">
        <plugin name="CountryList" type="[vendor]\[module]\Plugin\CountryList"/>
    </type>

Create plugin folder inside [vendor]->[module] & create CountryList.php

then, Put the below code & play with $result return by default country list API.

<?php
namespace Vendorname\modulename\Plugin;
class CountryList
{
    public function afterGetCountriesInfo(\Magento\Directory\Model\CountryInformationAcquirer $subject, $result) {
        $data = [];
        foreach ($result as $key => $value) {
            $data[$key]['id'] = $value->getId();
            $data[$key]['two_letter_abbreviation'] = $value->getTwoLetterAbbreviation();
            $data[$key]['three_letter_abbreviation'] = $value->getThreeLetterAbbreviation();
            $data[$key]['full_name_locale'] = $value->getFullNameLocale();
            $data[$key]['full_name_english'] = $value->getFullNameEnglish();
            $regions = [];
            if (!empty($value->getAvailableRegions())) {
                foreach ($value->getAvailableRegions() as $keyr => $region) {
                    $data[$key]['available_regions'][$keyr]['id'] = $region->getId();
                    $data[$key]['available_regions'][$keyr]['code'] = $region->getCode();
                    $data[$key]['available_regions'][$keyr]['name'] = $region->getName();
                }
            }
        }
        usort($data, function ($item1, $item2) {
          if (isset($item1["full_name_english"])
            && isset($item1["full_name_english"])
            && !empty($item1["full_name_english"])
            && !empty($item2["full_name_english"])) {
            return strcmp($item1["full_name_english"], $item2["full_name_english"]);
        }
        });
        return $data;
      }
}

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 04 '21 at 12:37

#Please use strcmp function to improve result

usort($countries, function ($item1, $item2) {
        if (isset($item1["full_name_english"])
            && isset($item1["full_name_english"])
            && !empty($item1["full_name_english"])
            && !empty($item2["full_name_english"])) {
            return strcmp($item1["full_name_english"], $item2["full_name_english"]);
        }
    });

How to sort full_name_english in magento 2 country directory.?

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