Hello everyone! This time, I've made some things to attract more PHP developers on Hive. Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome the first production version of [**Hive-PHP-Lib**](https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/hive-php-lib)!

![Light Hive PHP Lib logo on dark background](https://images.ecency.com/DQmW31Q3CfHqb8BHphGW6CLUba3JD1ezB4gViaeXVdzTwgR/gbsn.png)

For those who don't know, [**Hive-PHP-Lib**](https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/hive-php-lib) is a PHP Library made to interact more easily with HIVE blockchain. Instead of writing many lines of code with cURL and use a "raw style" every time you made a query, this library use easier functions/method for that.

This project is release under the open-source [MIT license](https://opensource.org/license/mit/). Many things are added, and it's time to take a tour of the news features. You can download it now : [Last release](https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/[**Hive-PHP-Lib**](https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/hive-php-lib)/-/releases/v1.0.1)

## New Condenser API methods
To bring [**Hive-PHP-Lib**](https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/hive-php-lib) in a production version, I add more methods for Condenser API (the production API used by Hive):

- get_market_history
- get_market_history_buckets
- get_order_book
- get_recent_trades
- get_trade_history
- get_volume
- list_proposal_votes
- list_proposals
- verify_authority

So, almost all methods for Condenser API are implemented in PHP. Of course, each method have his phpDoc block.

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<strong>Any PHP developer can now create a Hive project with PHP!</strong>
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## New APIs
It's OK for production but I also add some tests API for new devs: **Rewards API** and **RC API**.

Each API is now implemented in PHP and can be used right now. As every method in [**Hive-PHP-Lib**](https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/hive-php-lib), you can check the phpDoc for each function.

Don't forget: the Rewards API is for testing purpose only, don't use it on production.

## Raw style example
Remember the start of this post? I've talked about "Raw style.". Do you know you can do that too on [**Hive-PHP-Lib**](https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/hive-php-lib)? For only one reason: If HIVE blockchain will have a new HardFork, and if I don't have time to update this lib before the HF, you can still use it for new functions with Raw style.

If you need to use it, don't panic, I add a documented example file (in `/resources/example`).

## More docs & examples
I want to bring HIVE to new PHP developers (some beginners or students). That's why I added phpDoc blocks everywhere in the code. The documentation can be generated with any phpDoc software (Like [phpDocumentor](https://www.phpdoc.org/), [phpDox](https://phpdox.net/), ...).

Also, each Hive method have a `@link` tag which leads to Hive Developer portal. It's useful when you need more information about parameters or return data.

To finish with documentation, I fixed some typo errors or bad comments.

Why I do that? It's simple, just go to the `/docs/` folder and you'll see the entire developer documentation for each function in [**Hive-PHP-Lib**](https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/hive-php-lib)!

## Hive-Engine History integration
Hive-Engine has two types of nodes: Standard node and History node. In [**Hive-PHP-Lib**](https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/hive-php-lib), we can now interact with the second one. The three methods are implemented: 

- accountHistory($account, $limit)
- marketHistory($symbol)
- nftHistory($nfts, $symbol)

## NetworkStatus integration
Maybe you don't know, but I've a project who checks the Hive-Engine nodes health. It's [NetworkStatus](https://netstat.hivelive.me/), a small API for developers who need to avoid node errors. Now, you can take the best online node before sending your query.

What does that have to do with [**Hive-PHP-Lib**](https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/hive-php-lib)? It's simple, the API calls are embedded is this library! Write three lines of code, and you get the best online node to interact with Hive-Engine:

```php
use Hive\PhpLib\NetStat;
$api = new netStat();
$result = $api->getEngineBestNode();
```

![Developer by Innovalabs](https://images.ecency.com/DQmcHBLQwmSrbJyJh96bGVBSmrpeYayF6AwVeXMrGrdbon3/software_developer_6521720_1280.jpg)

## Code Quality

To bring the best possible quality, [**Hive-PHP-Lib**](https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/hive-php-lib) use static analysis tools. I do my best to follow the PHP Standard Recommendations to create this API. The code must be clear and understandable by every PHP developer.

To start, I follow [PHP-PDS](http://php-pds.com/) standard filesystem skeleton, and you can check that with the `composer pds` command.

About the code, every file is [PSR-1](https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-1) and [PSR-12](https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-12) compliant. You can also check that with a command: `composer psr`

I implement a [Psalm](https://psalm.dev/) config file for those who use this static analysis tool, but it's not the only one! You can also use `composer phpstan` command to create a [PHPStan](https://phpstan.org/) instant report.

At this time, I bring Psalm to level 3 and PHPStan to level 5 but the target is to have level 1 for both.

## Fixes

Small features/fixes are also added :

- [Feature] Add encodePublicKey() and decodePublicKey() functions
- [Feature] Add Hive-Engine getRichList() shortcut function
- [Fix] Hive-engine getBlockInfo() bad type bug
- [Fix] Default values for config array when not declared by user
- [Fix] Debug message Display
- [Fix] Extra slash in NetworkStatus endpoints
- [Fix] HiveSQL status typo in endpoint

## Conclusion

It's been awhile from the [last update](https://peakd.com/hive-139531/@bambukah/hive-php-lib-update-new) (Jul 14, 2023) and I hope this one will attract more developers to Hive Blockchain. Before this version, [**Hive-PHP-Lib**](https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/hive-php-lib) had more than 150 downloads.

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