Get ETH & ERC20 Balances: PHP Tutorial

Tutorial to get ERC20 or Ethereum balance of an address

To query the balance of ERC20 tokens, you need a valid Ethereum address. With this tutorial you can easily query the balance of the respective Ethereum address. We have written a detailed tutorial for this purpose. Read more.

Prerequisites

  1. Basic knowledge of PHP
  2. Account at Chaingateway.io
  3. A local or remote machine with PHP7 and installed modules JSON and CURL

The Code

				
					
<?php
# ----- REPLACE THE VARIABLES BELOW WITH YOUR DATA -----
$apikey = "YOURAPIKEY";
$ethereumaddress = "ETHEREUMADDRESS"; // Ethereum address you want to get the balance of
$contractaddress = "CONTRACTADDRESS"; // Smart contract address of the Token
# -------------------------------------------------------


# Define function endpoint
$ch = curl_init("https://eu.eth.chaingateway.io/v1/getTokenBalance");

# Setup request to send json via POST. This is where all parameters should be entered.
$payload = json_encode( array("ethereumaddress" => $ethereumaddress, "contractaddress" => $contractaddress) );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $payload );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Content-Type:application/json", "Authorization: " . $apikey));

# Return response instead of printing.
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );

# Send request.
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

# Decode the received JSON string
$resultdecoded = json_decode($result, true);

# Print the Token balance to the screen
echo $resultdecoded["balance"];
?>

Code Modifications

  1. Replace “YOURAPIKEY” in line 3 of above code with the API Key in your Chaingateway.io Account Panel.
  2. Replace “ethereumaddress” in line 4 of above code with the Ethereum address you want to get the balance of.
  3. Replace “contractaddress” in line 5 of above code with the smart contract address of the Token

Final Steps

  1. Upload the code above to your local or remote machine
  2. Call the script by navigating to your favorite browser and entering the URL
  3. After a few seconds, the script will return a balance.

Congratulations! You just checked the Token balance of an ethereum address.

If you want to automatically receive notifications on deposits and withdrawals, please check out this tutorial about IPN for ERC20 Token.