/php-blockchain

Minimal working blockchain implemented in PHP

Primary LanguagePHPMIT LicenseMIT

Blockchain implementation in PHP

Minimum PHP Version Build Status License

Clean code approach to blockchain technology. Learn blockchain by reading source code.

Roadmap

  • Block structure and hashing
  • Genesis block
  • Storing and validate Blockchain
  • Proof of Work with difficulty (missing consensus on the difficulty)
  • Communicating with other nodes & controlling the node (based on ReactPHP)
  • Simple persistence layer
  • Going serverless with AWS Lambda (experiment)
  • Start working on KondasCoin akondas/coin 🚀 (Transactions, Wallet, Transaction relaying, Maybe some UI)

Node

To start the node:

bin/node

Default web server port is 8080 but you can change it with --http-port param:

bin/node --http-port=9090

Default p2p server port is 3030 but you can change it with --p2p-port param:

bin/node --p2p-port=2020

API

To control node you can use simple (pseudo) REST API:

[GET] /blocks Response (list of all blocks):

[{"index":0,"hash":"8b31c9ec8c2df21968aca3edd2bda8fc77ed45b0b3bc8bc39fa27d5c795bc829","previousHash":"","createdAt":"2018-02-23 23:59:59","data":"PHP is awesome!","difficulty":0,"nonce":0}]

[POST] /mine Request (raw):

Data to mine (any string).

Response (mined block):

{"index":1,"hash":"a6eba6325a677802536337dc83268e524ffae5dc7db0950c98ff970846118f80","previousHash":"8b31c9ec8c2df21968aca3edd2bda8fc77ed45b0b3bc8bc39fa27d5c795bc829","createdAt":"2018-03-13 22:37:07","data":"Something goof","difficulty":0,"nonce":0}

[GET] /peers Response (list of all connected peers):

[{"host":"127.0.0.1","port":3131}]

[POST] /peers/add Request (json with peer):

{"host":"127.0.0.1", "port":"3131"}

Response: 204 (empty)

Tests

To run test suite:

composer tests

Coding standards

Checkers and fixers are in coding-standard.neon. To run:

composer fix-cs

License

php-blockchain is released under the MIT Licence. See the bundled LICENSE file for details.

Author

Arkadiusz Kondas (@ArkadiuszKondas)