# Gavin Andresen
# 2011-04-01 11:58:01
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4086.msg77055#msg77055

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 @p{brk}
Am I the only person here who looks at our documentation for how to use bitcoin from PHP and thinks "people are going to run away screaming" ?  See:  @p{(link}@s{(link)}(JSON-RPC)@p{link)} @p{par}

I @p{(bf}strongly@p{bf)} believe you are making the common cases (simple shopping carts or "hold a bitcoin balance for a customer and let them spend it") much, much more complicated than necessary. @p{par}

What do other people think?  I'd especially like to hear from people who have prior experience using PHP to implement shopping carts and other simple applications that deal with money.  Did you use BCMATH/GMP? @p{brk}