cruzbit-peer-php

This is an example client ("peer") for the cruzbit network written in PHP. It is not a fully validating node, but implements specific 'one-way' functionality to sync and live track the entire blockchain, using a MariaDB (or MySQL, if desired) database for storage.

Features At-A-Glance

• uses ratchetphp/Pawl for WebSockets functionality (which is sort of like a lightweight Ratchet)
• event driven handling of the following messages: inv_block, block, find_common_ancestor
• properly syncs and downloads the entire blockchain to the current tip
• handles manual reconnection gracefully, continuing sync at the point where disconnection happened
• written in the style of the reference client code (even to the level of having the same comments), so that the two can be easily compared

Setup

cruzbit-peer-php should run on most PHP installations (actively tested on PHP 7.2), with MariaDB or MySQL (there is one query which requires MariaDB, and will need to be adjusted for other DB software).

1. Create a new database (an a user, if you like); the default is blockchain but can be specified in settings

   CREATE DATABASE blockchain

2. Add structure and populate initial data

   mysql blockchain -uroot -p < blockchain.sql

3. Configure

   1. Create settings.php

      cp settings.php.dist settings.php

   2. Edit settings.php

      'database' => [
          'host' => 'localhost',
          'user' => 'username',
          'password' => 'password',
          'database' => 'blockchain',
      ],

4. Run from command line This script should be happy to stay running in the background. There are a multitude of ways to accomplish this, for example your favorite terminal multiplexer (if you don't have a favorite already, try tmux or screen).

   php run.php [options]

   • Options:
     • Noise Level - There are five 'noise levels' available. Ranging from most terse to mose verbose they are; silent, quiet, normal, verbose, and debug. Normal is the default, and does not require the use of an option switch. Each level has an option (--silent) and a short option (-s). The --noise-level can be used to directly set the level by number, does not have a short option, and requires N to be a digit between 0 and 4, inclusive.
       • Silent will not output anything to the command line, except fatal PHP errors.
       • Quiet will only output major program errors and critical warnings.
       • Normal emulates the reference client's logging level.
       • Verbose outputs logging for many significant client operations
       • Debug will show everything, and includes a lot of low-level information, including raw data structures

       -s, --silent   
       -q, --quiet      
       -v, --verbose    
       -d, --debug
       --noise-level N