Any volunteers willing to help educate me how to set up the Blocktrail SDK!?

[mcplums]

Hey chaps,

I want to use the Blocktrail SDK for my site but my level of technical ability is too low to follow the documentation provided. Is anyone out there willing to help me!? I cannot afford to offer money or anything, just maybe there is someone who enjoys teaching this kind of thing!

I'm not a programmer, this site is just something I am doing in my free time for fun, but I am not a complete noob, I am familiar with php and I also successfully set up the blockchain.info API myself. I am also extremely familiar with bitcoin itself. But I have never used an SDK before (I'm not really sure what the difference is between an SDK and API anyway). I'm not sure why it's something I need to 'install' as opposed to just sending data to a url.

Specifically, I'm not really sure what to do with the instructions at https://www.blocktrail.com/api/docs#installation

Thanks in advance!!

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[goregrind]

You can find the installation instructions here https://github.com/blocktrail/blocktrail-sdk-php
Think of the sdk as a module that has all the api calls already implemented.

[mcplums]

Thanks for your reply buddy.

I've been doing some more research on this, and it seems that in order to 'install an SDK' I need VPS hosting, is this correct?

I have been looking at VPS hosting packages and I am asked to choose OS. Which should I choose:

CentOS6
Ubuntu (various versions)
Windows Web
Windows Standard
Fedora 17
Debian 7

I have only ever used Windows before, however now seems as good a time as any to finally learn linux, as it seems that the SDK installation instructions assume that you use linux.

I have absolutely no idea what the difference is between any of the non-windows OSs listed.