https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Talk%3APHP_developer_intro 2026-04-29T12:13:39Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.8 https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Talk:PHP_developer_intro&diff=6398&oldid=prev 2011-03-30T11:42:00Z

<p>You&#039;re doing it wrong.</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>What the hell?<br /> <br /> You&#039;re saying to do ANY bitcoin/php website you need to:<br /> <br /> + Grab a special fork<br /> + Install the bcmath and gmp libraries into your web server<br /> <br /> <br /> I think you&#039;re steering the 90+% of people who are NOT going to be using bitcoin for heavy-duty financial calculations the wrong way. If I&#039;m using PHP for a shopping cart application where the most complicated financial transaction I&#039;m likely to need is ADDING, then using double-precision floating point for bitcoin amounts is 100% OK.<br /> <br /> If you can find a PHP implementation on hardware that runs bitcoin AND stores numbers using too little precision to properly round amounts, let me know.<br /> <br /> Otherwise: you&#039;re making a mountain out of a molehill.</div>

Gavinandresen