Made a bunch of progress today on btcshirts.co!

When I launched the site I didn't have payments figured out all the way. I have planned to use Coinbase since day one, I just wasn't sure how I would hook it all up. I wanted to launch the site and see if anyone was actually interested.

There were people interested! I got just over 10 pre-order signups which was so awesome to see. Over the week I have been looking into the fastest way to tie a transaction on Coinbase to a user so I can actually send them the t-shirt.

With no out of the box options really available to do this simply, I planned on learning enough to take advantage of their payments API. Being just a basic HTML site the easiest way was to just use PHP and a little bit of Ajax.

I wired up a shipping address form in the same modal that I configured to take email signups, piece of cake with Twitter Bootstrap. Then using the already included Jquery library, I wrote some Ajax to gather the data and submit it to a PHP script. The PHP script took the data from the form and mangled it into a CURL request via JSON to Coinbase. They return a response object (success or fail essentially) and a code for a new payment page. Behind the scenes, the form data is getting slapped into the Coinbase request so when the transaction is actually completed, I have the users address associated with the transaction so I can send them the shirt!! Yay!

Thanks to Tom Mckelvey for the review and help! I sent him a btc tip, one of the best uses of bitcoin so far haha.