Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the best PHP way to interact with our favorite blockchain!

## Introduction

When you code on PHP, it's most difficult to work with blockchains. For Hive, there are 3 libs for that:

- [Hive-php](https://gitlab.com/mahdiyari/hive-php/), by @mahdiyari, with which you can interact only in "Raw mode" (and you need another external library),
- [Php-hive-tools](https://github.com/dragosroua/php-hive-tools), made by @dragosroua, which is not up to date,
- [Php-he-tools](https://github.com/fkosmala/php-he-tools), by me, to only interact with HiveEngine layer.

All these libs are without good documentation, with no standardized code and have some defects. That's why I wish to develop a library which can be used with Hive and HiveEngine. This lib need to have a really readable code, many comments, some examples, and have the "Enterprise-class" standards.

Now, it's over, and only one library will be used for that: [**Hive-php-lib**](https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/hive-php-lib)

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## How can I do that?

First of all, the code of [**Hive-php-lib**](https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/hive-php-lib) is fully readable by a beginner. We need to attract more developers into HIVE blockchain and the lib is easy to understand. I use the well-known [PSR-1](https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-1) & [PSR-12](https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-1) coding standards for that. The code is written to be clear and easy to use.

If the code is not understandable, I made DocBlocks for every function. Just execute [phpdoc](https://www.phpdoc.org/) in the lib folder to have a full featured developer documentation.

Don't know where is a function? Don't panic, [**Hive-php-lib**](https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/hive-php-lib) is bundled in the [PHP-PDS](http://php-pds.com/) format, so all the PHP code is in `/src/` folder, and in an easy way.

[**Hive-php-lib**](https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/hive-php-lib) is also upgradeable in the easiest way: `composer update` give you the last version of this awesome library.

All these things made [**Hive-php-lib**](https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/hive-php-lib) ready to use in any big project in production mode. Of course, all is fully open-source (MIT Licence).

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## How can you use this lib?

Want to create a project with [**Hive-php-lib**](https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/hive-php-lib)? You can check the official [HIVE Developer Portal](https://developers.hive.io/) because I started to write some tutorials to have the best start with this lib !

If you to go futher without waiting for other tutorials, you'll find the entire list of methods for HIVE and HiveEngine in the [methods.md](https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/hive-php-lib/-/blob/main/docs/Methods.md) file in `/docs/` folder.

Some examples are in `/resources/examples/` folder too and the other ones will be added very soon.

## What's next?

For [**Hive-php-lib**](https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/hive-php-lib), it's just the beginning. I want to include some shortcuts functions to have data in an easier way. (e.g. `getPublicKeys("bambukah")` to have an array with all my public keys.)

I also want to add all keys & transactions functions, but without any external library (like ext-gmp). Many users cannot install this type of lib on their PHP instances and I want to use this lib everywhere.

After that, I will write more tutorials that will be included into the official [HIVE Developer Portal](https://developers.hive.io/) (Go check this site and the AppBase API in Condenser chapter to discover the very powerful Hive API).

To finish, I want to write some units tests to have the best quality library. Updates will take place soon for each new HardFork or for any fix.

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If you want to talk with me or the team behind this project, come in my [Discord server](https://discord.gg/uJKMb6pGEv) or follow me on my [Twitter account](https://twitter.com/FlorentKosmala)

Of course, if you have any feedback or question, feel free to ask in comments section! As usual, If you like my work, please up-vote and re-blog this post, it helps me a lot.

Thank you very much and have a nice day!

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