Bitcoin Price Ticker Script

[moukieb]

Folks, I'm trying to fix this little bitcoin price ticker script for my site bitcoinvalues.net but having a hard time. The PHP script is supposed to pull Mt.Gox's latest bitcoin prices but Mt.Gox had to shut down their business. I want to replace Mt.Gox with something like bitstamp.net/api/ticker/ and blockchain.info/ticker...one of those tickers but I cannot get it to work no matter how much I tried. Some help would be helpful. The script is below.

<?php
         //first fetch the current rate from MtGox
         $ch = curl_init('[URL unfurl="true"]https://mtgox.com/api/0/data/ticker.php');[/URL]
                 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MtGox PHP client; '.php_uname('s').'; PHP/'.phpversion().')');
                 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "CakeScript/0.1");
                 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
                 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
                 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
                 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
                 $mtgoxjson = curl_exec($ch);
                 curl_close($ch);
                
         //decode from an object to array
                 $output_mtgox = json_decode($mtgoxjson);
                 $output_mtgox_1 = get_object_vars($output_mtgox);
                 $mtgox_array = get_object_vars($output_mtgox_1['ticker']);
  
 ?>
 <br/>
 <br/>
 Last:&nbsp;<?php echo $mtgox_array['last'];   ?><br/>
 High:&nbsp;<?php echo $mtgox_array['high'];   ?><br/>
 Low:&nbsp;&nbsp;<?php echo $mtgox_array['low'];   ?><br/>
 Avg:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<?php echo $mtgox_array['avg'];   ?><br/>
 Vol:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<?php echo $mtgox_array['vol'];   ?><br/>

http://www.bitcoinvalues.net

 

[jpadie]

the api here looks pretty straightforward:

http://bitcoincharts.com/about/markets-api/

here is a tiny script I wrote to give you the output as per your mount_gox script. It handles only localbtcUSD trades. You can change the comparison to any other symbol to get alternative information.

<?php
foreach(json_decode(file_get_contents("[URL unfurl="true"]http://api.bitcoincharts.com/v1/markets.json"))[/URL] as $item)
	if($item->symbol == 'localbtcUSD') break;
printf("<pre>\nLast:\t%s\nHight:\t%s\nLow:\t%s\nAvg:\t%s\nVol:\t%s\n</pre>", $item->latest_trade, $item->high, $item->low, $item->avg, $item->volume);
?>

 

[moukieb]

Works like a charm. Thanks. Anyone can see how it works here: Bitcoin Price Calculator

http://www.bitcoinvalues.net