Hello everyone! This time, I've made some things to attract more PHP developers on Hive. Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome the first production version of Hive-PHP-Lib!

For those who don't know, Hive-PHP-Lib is a PHP Library made to interact more easily with HIVE blockchain. Instead of writing many lines of code with cURL and use a "raw style" every time you made a query, this library use easier functions/method for that.

This project is release under the open-source MIT license. Many things are added, and it's time to take a tour of the news features. You can download it now : Last release

#New Condenser API methods

To bring Hive-PHP-Lib in a production version, I add more methods for Condenser API (the production API used by Hive):

• get_market_history
• get_market_history_buckets
• get_order_book
• get_recent_trades
• get_trade_history
• get_volume
• list_proposal_votes
• list_proposals
• verify_authority

So, almost all methods for Condenser API are implemented in PHP. Of course, each method have his phpDoc block.

#New APIs

It's OK for production but I also add some tests API for new devs: Rewards API and RC API.

Each API is now implemented in PHP and can be used right now. As every method in Hive-PHP-Lib, you can check the phpDoc for each function.

Don't forget: the Rewards API is for testing purpose only, don't use it on production.

#Raw style example

Remember the start of this post? I've talked about "Raw style.". Do you know you can do that too on Hive-PHP-Lib? For only one reason: If HIVE blockchain will have a new HardFork, and if I don't have time to update this lib before the HF, you can still use it for new functions with Raw style.

If you need to use it, don't panic, I add a documented example file (in /resources/example).

#More docs & examples

I want to bring HIVE to new PHP developers (some beginners or students). That's why I added phpDoc blocks everywhere in the code. The documentation can be generated with any phpDoc software (Like phpDocumentor, phpDox, ...).

Also, each Hive method have a @link tag which leads to Hive Developer portal. It's useful when you need more information about parameters or return data.

To finish with documentation, I fixed some typo errors or bad comments.

Why I do that? It's simple, just go to the /docs/ folder and you'll see the entire developer documentation for each function in Hive-PHP-Lib!

#Hive-Engine History integration

Hive-Engine has two types of nodes: Standard node and History node. In Hive-PHP-Lib, we can now interact with the second one. The three methods are implemented:

• accountHistory($account, $limit)
• marketHistory($symbol)
• nftHistory($nfts, $symbol)

#NetworkStatus integration

Maybe you don't know, but I've a project who checks the Hive-Engine nodes health. It's NetworkStatus, a small API for developers who need to avoid node errors. Now, you can take the best online node before sending your query.

What does that have to do with Hive-PHP-Lib? It's simple, the API calls are embedded is this library! Write three lines of code, and you get the best online node to interact with Hive-Engine:

use Hive\PhpLib\NetStat;
$api = new netStat();
$result = $api->getEngineBestNode();

#Code Quality

To bring the best possible quality, Hive-PHP-Lib use static analysis tools. I do my best to follow the PHP Standard Recommendations to create this API. The code must be clear and understandable by every PHP developer.

To start, I follow PHP-PDS standard filesystem skeleton, and you can check that with the composer pds command.

About the code, every file is PSR-1 and PSR-12 compliant. You can also check that with a command: composer psr

I implement a Psalm config file for those who use this static analysis tool, but it's not the only one! You can also use composer phpstan command to create a PHPStan instant report.

At this time, I bring Psalm to level 3 and PHPStan to level 5 but the target is to have level 1 for both.

#Fixes

Small features/fixes are also added :

• [Feature] Add encodePublicKey() and decodePublicKey() functions
• [Feature] Add Hive-Engine getRichList() shortcut function
• [Fix] Hive-engine getBlockInfo() bad type bug
• [Fix] Default values for config array when not declared by user
• [Fix] Debug message Display
• [Fix] Extra slash in NetworkStatus endpoints
• [Fix] HiveSQL status typo in endpoint

#Conclusion

It's been awhile from the last update (Jul 14, 2023) and I hope this one will attract more developers to Hive Blockchain. Before this version, Hive-PHP-Lib had more than 150 downloads.

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