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Easy way to (currently) get MtGox price into PHP variable?
January 21, 2012, 01:48:25 AM
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Quote from: senbonzakura on January 20, 2012, 07:17:42 PM
excellent Smiley

I am new to this too, I learn by looking at example code, cant code from scratch , so example code saves me time Smiley

are you developing a site or just learning php ?

Similar here, learn by example then make changes and learn even more when trying to fix what's broken.   Cheesy
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Re: Easy way to (currently) get MtGox price into PHP variable?
January 20, 2012, 07:17:42 PM
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excellent Smiley

I am new to this too, I learn by looking at example code, cant code from scratch , so example code saves me time Smiley

are you developing a site or just learning php ?
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Re: Easy way to (currently) get MtGox price into PHP variable?
January 20, 2012, 07:14:27 PM
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Quote from: senbonzakura on January 20, 2012, 06:35:05 PM
...tell us if it works for you.

After the curl, I just needed the variable, so  (for example)

Code:
//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']);

$ask_price= $mtgox_array['sell'];


Yes that helped, thanks  Smiley
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Re: Easy way to (currently) get MtGox price into PHP variable?
January 20, 2012, 06:35:05 PM
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the above saves the price on database, and then i get the updated price each time from database.

you can alter it any way you like, good luck, tell us if it works for you.
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Re: Easy way to (currently) get MtGox price into PHP variable?
January 20, 2012, 06:28:02 PM
#3
Will try it; Thanks senbonzakura.
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Re: Easy way to (currently) get MtGox price into PHP variable?
January 20, 2012, 06:22:41 PM
#2
hope this helps

Code:
function updateExchangeRate() {
 $result = False;
 $url = "https://mtgox.com/api/0/data/ticker.php";
if ($CH = curl_init()) {
 curl_setopt($CH, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
 curl_setopt($CH, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, True);
 curl_setopt($CH, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, False);
 curl_setopt($CH, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, False);
 curl_setopt($CH, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5);
 curl_setopt($CH, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "MtGox PHP Client");
if ($output = curl_exec($CH)) {
 if ($result = json_decode($output, True)) {
 if ($result = $result['ticker']) {
 databaseQuery("UPDATE `mytable`.`misc` SET `value`=:price WHERE `key`='mtgox'", False, array('price' => round($result['last'], 2)));
 }
 } else {
 // JSON decoding failed. //
 }
 } else {
 // cURL connection failed. //
 }
 } else {
 // cURL initialization failed. //
 }
 $CH = NULL;
}
?>
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Re: Easy way to (currently) get MtGox price into PHP variable?
January 20, 2012, 05:58:55 PM
#1
Please help w/ an easy question:

Note: I'm not looking to need to Authenticate w/ the full API
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/MtGox/API#Authentication

1) This URl:
https://mtgox.com/api/0/data/ticker.php
Returns the data in a browser, so it must be possible to do a simple script like this (for example)

Code:

$jsonurl = "https://mtgox.com/api/0/data/ticker.php";
$json = file_get_contents($jsonurl,0,null,null);
$values = json_decode($json, true);

echo $values['ticker']['sell'];

?>

The above just gives a blank page.
This must be easy, can someone please tell me what is wrong?
Thank you very much.
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