PHP Bitcoin Blockchain Parser

A PHP implementation of Bitcoin blockchain database parser.

Features:

• Parse unordered block data
• Parse ordered block data
• Parse block index
• Parse chain state (UTXO database)

Requirements

• PHP >= 7.1
• Bitcoin Core >= 0.15.1
• leveldb >= 1.20
• php-leveldb >= 0.2.1
• php-gmp >= 7.1

Installation

composer require andkom/php-bitcoin-blockchain

Examples

$databaseReader = new DatabaseReader('/path/to/bitcoin');
// read ordered blocks
foreach ($databaseReader->readBlocks() as $block) {
}
// read unordered blocks
foreach ($databaseReader->readBlocksUnordered() as $block) {
}
// read UTXO 
foreach ($databaseReader->getChainstate()->read() as $utxo) {
}
// get block by hash
$block = $databaseReader->getBlockByHash('binary hash in little endian'); 
// get block by height
$block = $databaseReader->getBlockByHeight(12345);
// get best block hash
$hash = $databaseReader->getChainstate()->getBestBlock();

See more examples in the examples dir.

LevelDB installation

Ubuntu/Debian:

apt-get install libleveldb-dev
pecl install leveldb-0.2.1

Mac OS:

brew install leveldb
pecl install leveldb-0.2.1

Or compile from source:

git clone https://github.com/google/leveldb.git
cd leveldb
mkdir -p build && cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .. && cmake --build .
make install
cd ../../
git clone https://github.com/reeze/php-leveldb.git
cd php-leveldb
phpize
./configure --with-leveldb
make
make install

Make sure you’ve enabled leveldb.so extension in your php.ini.