You don't want to generate a new address for each web page hit. That's a lot of useless addresses stored in your wallet.
Change "getnewaddress(label)" to "getaccountaddress(label)" and you'll get the same address over and over, until somebody donates. Then you'll get a different one.
Topic: CGI script for donations (Read 2241 times)
MyBitcoin seems to generate a new address for each payment when using the Bitcoin client (as in not through a MyBitcoin account). Just put a button for that on your site.
You don't want to generate a new address for each web page hit. That's a lot of useless addresses stored in your wallet.
Thanks !
I'm sure some people will find this useful.
I'm sure some people will find this useful.
Code:
#!/usr/bin/env python
print("""Content-type: text/html
print("""Content-type: text/html
""")")
# module installed via svn from http://json-rpc.org/wiki/python-json-rpc
from jsonrpc import ServiceProxy
from os import uname
hostname = uname()[1]
s = ServiceProxy("http://user:[email protected]:8332/")
label = "web donations on " + hostname
address = s.getnewaddress(label)
print(address + "\n")
donated = s.getreceivedbylabel(label)
if donated > 0:
print("Donations so far: BTC " + str(donated))
print("Thank you for your support :)")
print("
I know that one of the good things whith bitcoins, is that you don't need a complex code into your website in order to accept donations. Basically all you need is to display a bitcoin address.
However, I wonder if using a single fixed unique address is a good idea. Because it could allow anyone, including the tax-humgry government, to know exactly how many bitcoins you have received.
I'm not concerned about this, because I don't maintain any website. But I might be in the future. Therefore I'd like to suggest to publish a small CGI script that would create a new bitcoin-address for every visitor who would like to make donation.
I suck a CGI programming, but at least I know that any programming language can be used to do that. So I guess a simple "bitcoind getnewaddress SOMELABEL" could be used, where SOMELABEL would be any string the donator would like to enter.
I'd appreciate if someone could post an example of such a script.
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