On KodeInfo.com there's a new tutorial posted showing you how to let your users pay with Bitcoin made possible using Coinbase, a Bitcoin wallet service, and BitPay, a payment gateway. Their example is a Laravel-based application.

Today we will learn how to integrate payment with bitcoins , we will integrate coinbase and bitpay to pay with bitcoins .

They walk you through the full process, including getting the accounts set up on the needed services:

• Setting up Bitpay
• Setting up Coinbase
• Creating migrations
• Views and Routes
• Config File
• Creating models
• Integrating Bitpay
• Integrating Coinbase

Each step is accompanied by screenshots or code, depending on what steps are needed. If you want to jump to the end, you can also grab the full code directly from GitHub.

The SitePoint PHP blog has posted the second part of their series about using the CoinBase API through PHP. In this new tutorial they use the API connection made in the first part via the Coinbase SDK.

In part 1, we covered basic installation and usage of Coinbase’s Bitcoin PHP API and the accompanying SDK. In this second and final part, we’ll be building our sample application.

He briefly shows how to send and receive bitcoins before diving into the application. His simple application includes a basic welcome page, a payment page, thanks page and a cancel page (in case of errors). Complete code for the HTML, CSS, and PHP (API calls) is included in the post. He shows how to create the button to start the payment process and add it to the page.

On the SitePoint PHP blog there's a recent post showing you how to combine PHP and the Coinbase API to add the ability to accept bitcoins as payment in your application. This is part one in a series of posts about making the connection and integrating it into the application.

Have you ever thought about selling your services in exchange for Bitcoins? It’s not so strange – today, many big players are actually doing it. From OkCupid to KhanAcademy, even WordPress is accepting Bitcoin. Also, some countries are thinking about it as a currency. Today, we will see how to accept Bitcoin payments on your website/application in an easy way, with the Coinbase API (and its SDK).

He briefly explains what kind of services the Coinbase API provides and talks about some of the different integration methods they offer. While they do offer a "button" you can add to the site, this tutorial focuses on the PHP integration using their SDK. They help you get it installed and show how to use the Coinbase site to set up authentication and authorization handling. He helps you get an instance of the Coinbase object ready for use and shows how to use it to interact with your account. The SDK also allows you to create the same button as the Coinbase site does, just in a more programatic way.