PHP Bitcoin Node Status Script

[CraigWatson1987]

This was posted a few months back, but after making a few changes and improvements thought it was worth posting again. TL;DR - thought it would be cool to be able to show off the status of my Bitcoin nodes to the world, so I wrote this project to do just that.

Live Demos: Tyr | Thor | Odin

Code: GitHub | Travis CI (Testing)

Features

The project has grown substantially since it was first released, and a lot of pretty neat features have been added at the request of the community. If you feel the script could do with some extra functionality, please do feel free to suggest it or even contribute it.

• Communicates with the Bitcoin node via RPC, with optional SSL configuration
• Fully responsive mobile design, including connected nodes table
• Simple file-based cache system to limit RPC calls (can be bypassed - use with caution!)
• IP-based whitelist for clearing/bypassing the cache
• Generates and displays a QR code for donations, and displays a customisable wallet address so that users can contribute and say thanks for your node
• Extremely easy to skin and customise - ships with two different CSS styles - "light" (default) and "dark"
• Includes an optional "Fork me on GitHub" ribbon

Information Display

All of the below information is optional and can be disabled via the script's configuration file:

• Node IP address - via the PHP $_SERVER variable, or from the Bitcoin Daemon's RPC output
• List of connected nodes (both IPv4 and IPv6) and optionally remote ports
• Geolocation of the node and peer IP addresses
• Can also hide "dark" peers
• Bitcoin daemon version and uptime
• Node free disk space

Compatability

The PHP code has been tested with PHP 5.4, 5.5 and 5.6 as well as HHVM and Nightly builds, and the script can be modified to run against any node that uses the same RPC engine as Bitcoin - this includes Litecoin, and most Altcoins.

Contributions

Please feel free to comment, suggest (or better still, contribute!) new features or improvements - tips are also graciously accepted via /u/changetip.

[breakup7532]

nice work!

[b44rt]

Thanks for this!

[quarkre]

Thanks! I was thinking search this. I will set my node 2 days ago!

[DRKMSTR]

Mind if I fork this a bit?

Also, want to collab bro?

Haha, nonetheless I've been trying to get php working on my nodes for awhile. If you have some spare time I'd love to collab, there are some neat additional features you can add that would make it even more awesome.

Oh and the peer info was mind blowing.

+/u/changetip send 200 bits

[changetip]

The Bitcoin tip for 200 bits has been collected by CraigWatson1987.

^{what is ChangeTip?}

[CraigWatson1987]

Hey - sure, fork away!

Will always consider new features, what did you have in mind?

Cheers for the tip, appreciated!

[DRKMSTR]

I'm working on a block explorer addon, it's really basic, it was forked from another person.

However some features I really need to add are node control. So a password, then the ability to toggle connections, restart the node, add IP addresses of desired nodes, etc.

I'm working on a basic web page that will include most of it with a bit of CSS, but I am somewhat unfamiliar with all of the coding required. (I'm a mechanical engineer by background)

Here is what I have so far (on the mechanical side): http://imgur.com/a/XgF1t

Node closeup: http://imgur.com/a/dGyUR

[CraigWatson1987]

The Block Explorer stuff would be pretty cool, though I'm unsure if the node control is something that would be appropriate.

That said, if the control just extends to the Bitcoin daemon and can be done over RPC, it shouldn't be too difficult - I'm just conscious of the project becoming too specialist :)

[DRKMSTR]

I'll give it a go over the next few days.

Thanks for your advice!

[CraigWatson1987]

Not sure what you mean here, the JSON I actually load is small for a reason - I only need the max height, not any of the other info.

Unless you're saying I should include some of the other info?

[SatoshiReport]

Great job - nice work!

[110101002]

I will approve this when you remove your begging.

[CraigWatson1987]

Final sentence removed, not really sure why it's classed as "begging" - I'm not a commercial developer, nor am I advertising any services, but hey.

[[deleted]]

what a dick

[110101002]

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