Interest check: PHP Library

zcc

I did some searching and didn't see a PHP library for communicating with Horizon. Would that be something useful to work on and submit for the SBC?

bkolobara

Hi zcc, I think that a PHP library would be really useful. There are many PHP developers and applications built on PHP (like this forum) that would be able to integrate stellar.

You can always send raw requests to Horizon, but a well maintained library would make it much easier to get started.

zcc

Great, I'll work on getting something put together for the current SBC!

umbrel

zcc Let me know if you need help, we could collaborate on this.

zcc

Thanks for the offer, @umbrel . I plan to put the project up on github once I've got it to the point where it does something interesting and would be happy to accept PRs.

sacarlson

You can do most of what you need from php using restclient through stellar.org bridge-server. a library that could be setup using it might indeed make it simpler for php programers to get involved. I touched php to stellar with my project OpenCart stellar payment plugin. I also at one point started a php lib just before they release stellar bridge-server, at that point I didn't think it was needed anymore so stopped development on it. see: https://github.com/stellar/bridge-server and my project using it in php https://github.com/sacarlson/OpenCart_stellar_plugin as an example of how it can be used.

zcc

sacarlson Thanks for the link to the bridge server, I wasn't aware of it.

I would prefer to have a native PHP solution that didn't require any other dependencies or services, so I've implemented transaction building in my library so that you can send a payment without requiring the bridge server.