Built on top of Kohana framework, Bitmart is an online marketplace that allows anyone to buy and sell physical or digital goods, using cryptocurrencies as payment methods. At the moment the following cryptocurrencies are supported:
- bitcoin
- litecoin
- ppcoin
- dogecoin
Some features include:
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built-in Escrow - Order paid with cryptocurrency will trigger the built-in escrow process.
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instant digital delivery - once enabled, digital goods such as activation code or serial number can be delivered to the buyer in text form or url after payment has been made
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custom shipping table and tax modules
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sphinx is used to query the categories directly from memory. When compiling sphinx from source manually, you need to enable --with-pgsql as the database is postgresql
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As Bitmart uploads listing photos directly to Amazon s3-compatible storage, you will need to provide credentials and a bucket name from such service provider (eg, Amazon s3, dreamobjects, Google cloud storage)
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Cryptocurrency daemon - If you want to accept Bitcoin and Litecoin as payment methods, you have to compile and run both bitcoind and litecoind daemons as background services.
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openexchangerates account - convert one currency to another via JSON API
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SSL certificate
- Download and extract the source code
- Enable url rewrite, for nginx: rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php?kohana_uri=$1 last;
- Install Bitmart database from the dump file - project_root/database/bitmart.sql.tar.gz
- Customize the settings: project_root/kohana/config/*
- config/hybridauth.php - configure credentials of each service provider (eg: Facebook/Google/Yahoo) in order to support social login
- config/database.php - Postgresql database credentials
- config/general.php - Configure site name, base url, s3-compatible credentials, cryptocurrencies settings and more.
- After you have got sphinxsearch up and running, copy and modify project_root/database/sphinx.conf accordingly.
- Edit the settings in project_root/database/populate_category.php and run the script to copy category records to sphinx index.
- Compile/download and run cryptocurrency daemon. For example, if you plan to accept Bitcoin, make sure bitcoind is running. It's needed so that when a new transaction hits the wallet, Bitmart will be notified via a transaction hash and process the transaction accordingly. You can turn the following command into a service,
/opt/crypto/bitcoind -datadir=/opt/crypto/bitcoin -daemon -blocknotify="curl http://**your_site**/callback/block/btc/%s" -walletnotify="curl http://**your_site**/callback/wallet/btc/%s"
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Configure a cron job to run project_root/database/convert_currency.php, it will fetch the currency prices via openexchangerates JSON API and update project_root/kohana/application/general.php accordingly
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The default login is: username = admin, password = admin
- project_root/kohana/application/general.php contains hardcoded cryptocurrency exchange rate, it's supposed to be updated via third-party exchange such as bittrex and cryptsy.
