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Cornezuelo del Centeno
Cornezuelo del Centeno

Reputation: 501

Sending money from address to address on bitcoind with PHP

I'm programming the back-end for an ecommerce solution, Bitcoind API gives me one way of sending money to a bitcoin address: sendfrom <fromaccount> <tobitcoinaddress> <amount>

If I understood well, this will transfer money from one account to an address, but I don't see any way of sending from address to address. I didn't implemented accounts on my backend system, and don't want to do it as it's an aditional layer of complexity that I don't want to deal with right now.

So, I supose this will grab money from whatever address/addresses asociated to the account and send them to the bitcoin address provided. Any way of doing what I want to do?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2403

Answers (1)

JimmyB
JimmyB

Reputation: 12630

Check getaccount <bitcoinaddress>: "Returns the account associated with the given address." You give it a bitcoin address, receive the corresponding account, and can then use that account to sendfrom.

However, for security reasons, I advise against sending payments directly from PHP running on a web server. You may want to introduce at least one additional layer of validation before actual payment, and that layer is probably running on a separate machine. For example, have PHP write the payment orders to the database for another application elsewhere to poll and process. Both applications will have access to the database, but no direct link between them; and the PHP side will not (have to) be authorized to access the BTC wallet at all. Also consider using hot and cold wallets.

Upvotes: 2

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