Lightweight client for PHP

[Frodek]

How serve Bitcoin payments in PHP? One solution is Bitcoind but this required gigabytes of blockchain. Is possible use other client or configure Bitcoind to be lightweight?

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[achow101]

You could use Electrum which is a lightweight client. It has its own RPC stuff. Bitcoind can also be pruned so that the entire blockchain does not need to be stored.

[NyeFe]

You could use Electrum which is a lightweight client. It has its own RPC stuff. Bitcoind can also be pruned so that the entire blockchain does not need to be stored.

I would recommend this answer if you app isn't going to be doing much block exploring {getting public key data..} If it is, then I would probably just use an online service, or purchase a VPS to run bitcoind on.

[KenR]

Depends what exactly you want to service.Only send and receive payment functions ? Access to  public address ? Access to Public Networks ?

A lot of third party API's provide such services with probably 10 lines of code,blockchain.info's API for example.Since I haven't used Electrum's RPC,I'm not sure how easy that would be but for only sending and receiving bitcoin payments ,use other online wallet API's.

[MoneyShot2]

yea Electrum is the way to go.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=98.0

[fbueller]

Pruning is helpful if you want to use bitcoind.

As for a lightweight client in PHP - there isn't really such a project. You'll find lots of clients which expose an RPC port, allowing you to use any language to talk to them.

You can also talk to stratum servers. Electrum clients do this. It's allows for SPV level security about payments. There's actually a list of 20 or so public servers, you just need to write a library to talk to them.
The messages are JSON, with new lines indicating the end.

I've written a hacky library to talk to electrum servers in PHP, but since it's async it might be more pain than it's worth. https://github.com/Bit-Wasp/stratum-php

[Gyrsur]

maybe Mark Karpelès has rewritten Bitcoin Core in PHP. just ask him. he is an expert in PHP.

[jacktheking]

How serve Bitcoin payments in PHP?

If you are just going to accept Bitcoin as payment method from your online store or whatever, Bitpay or Coinbase APIs will be (one of) the best tools you will need. As others said, with only a few lines of (prebuilt) code, you will be able to accept Bitcoin online with PHP.

I have never tried Bitpay or Coinbase merchant API but as far as I know, it is easy to integrate.

[qwik2learn]

BitcoinJS

[Gyrsur]

BitWasp ist was für PHP Jünger. die kann auch schon SegWit.