In: PHP
September 07th, 2010.When there is a need for converting currency, you can use Google calculator API. It is easy to get value, and after you get it – all you have to do is parse it. Copy this simple snippet in order to make currency converter work on your website.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 | function currency($from_Currency, $to_Currency, $amount) { $amount = urlencode($amount); $from_Currency = urlencode($from_Currency); $to_Currency = urlencode($to_Currency); $url = "http://www.google.com/ig/calculator?q=$amount$from_Currency=?$to_Currency"; $ch = curl_init(); $timeout = 0; curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT , "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1)"); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout); $rawdata = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); $data = explode(‘"’, $rawdata); $data = explode(‘ ‘, $data[‘3?]); $var = $data[‘0?]; return round($var,3); } |
Here you can see the raw output for converting 1 USD in EUR: http://www.google.com/ig/calculator?q=1EUR=?USD.
Script was found on Dynamic Guru website, and was improved by SeanJA.