Bitcoin Price Ticker Fix - PLEASE HELP!

[jayc67]

I'm using this bitcoin price ticker that is using Mt.Gox but they're no longer in service unfortunately. I'm trying to replace Mt.Gox with blockchain or something similar. Can anyone please help me fix this?

 

I tried  https://www.bitstamp.net/api/ticker/ and https://blockchain.info/ticker but neither are working. I'm doing this for my site http://www.bitcoinvalues.net. Thanks

 

<?php
        //first fetch the current rate from MtGox
        $ch = curl_init('https://mtgox.com/api/0/data/ticker.php');
                curl_setopt($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: <?php echo $mtgox_array['last'];   ?><br/>
High: <?php echo $mtgox_array['high'];   ?><br/>
Low:  <?php echo $mtgox_array['low'];   ?><br/>
Avg:   <?php echo $mtgox_array['avg'];   ?><br/>
Vol:   <?php echo $mtgox_array['vol'];   ?><br/>

 

[joallen]

Try dumping the $output_mtgox variable after it is decoded to view the array. When looking at blockchain the data is in a json encoded array but there are multiple countries, something mtgox may not have had. I bet you the array will look something like:

array(21){
  usd(5){
    "15m"=>527,
    etc...
  },
  etc....
}

So basically you will need to modify your echo statements to be something like:

<?php echo $mtgox_array['usd']['last'];   ?>

Haven't tested it, but at least that should get you in the right direction.

 

If you use blockchain you could technically go a step further than the example site you gave and provide the results in the various currencies by using a jQuery slideshow or something of the sort.

 

p.s. make sure you change the curl_init statement to the blockchain url  .

 

Good Luck!

 

Josh

Edited May 23, 2014 by joallen