Print Page - Displaying active bitcoin stats on my webpage

I'm having a hard time figuring out how to display current mtgox stats on my web page.
I honestly have no idea where to start, and I can't find anything helpful online for how to do it.
The page I want to display on is my bithopper mining stats page, so its an html page.

I have the APIs from MtGox and tradehill but I don't know how to use them.

Here is how I did it on my old mining pool website with PHP and mySQL from TradeHill, which is *very* similar to how you would do it with MtGox, unless you want to use websocket/sockets.io for live AJAX stuff.

Code:

$file = fopen("https://api.tradehill.com/APIv1/USD/Ticker", "rb");
$tradedata = fread($file, 8192);
fclose($file);

$jsonTradedata = json_decode($tradedata, true);

mysql_query("UPDATE `websiteSettings` SET `tradeHillWorth` = '".$jsonTradedata['ticker']['last']."'");
echo $jsonTradedata['ticker']['last'];

This accessed a table in MySQL called websiteSettings in my main DB. You don't need a database, but it makes it easier to reduce load on your website because you can pool every N times, instead of every time the page loads.

Then you run this somewhere in your PHP code before you want to call the variable:

Code:

$tradeHillQ = mysql_query("SELECT `tradeHillWorth` FROM `websiteSettings`");
					$tradeHillWorth = mysql_fetch_object($tradeHillQ);

Then you run this when you want to insert the price in the output of the HTML page:

Code:

<?php echo round($tradeHillWorth->tradeHillWorth, 2);?>

The code above will round it to two decimal places. Again, this is very, very similar to how you would do it for any exchange. Just read their API documentation.

Bitcoin Forum

Economy => Marketplace => Topic started by: Houseonfire on November 28, 2011, 07:45:34 AM