How to get amount of bitcoins in php

Question

I'm using Coinbase, but they don't have an API call to get the amount of Bitcoins per address. So how can I get this information using PHP?

Answer 1

I’ve tried this code and it works:

<?php

function getBalance($address) {

    return file_get_contents('https://blockchain.info/de/q/addressbalance/'. $address);

}

echo 'Address Balance: ' . getBalance('1EzwoHtiXB4iFwedPr49iywjZn2nnekhoj');

Using the https://blockchain.info/de/q API.