Introduction ¶
This extension will help to find out current currency conversion rate. This extension uses Yahoo's currency conversion API.
Why Use It ¶
- Reliable Rate, Uses Yahoo API
- Conversion without curreny code(from country code)
- Caching of rate, to avoid connecting to Yahoo again and again ( Working on caching )
Requirements ¶
- PHP version 5.4 or later
- Curl Extension (Optional)
- Yii 2.0
Installation ¶
The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.
Either run
php composer.phar require --prefer-dist imanilchaudhari/yii2-currency-converter "dev-master"
or add
"imanilchaudhari/yii2-currency-converter": "dev-master"
to the require section of your composer.json file.
Usage ¶
Once the extension is installed, simply use it in your code by :
use imanilchaudhari\CurrencyConverter\CurrencyConverter;
$converter = new CurrencyConverter();
$rate = $converter->convert('USD', 'NPR');
print_r($rate); // it will print current Nepalese currency (NPR) rate according to USD
Anil Chaudhari
User Contributed Notes 2
It doesn't work
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in ...\vendor\imanilchaudhari\yii2-currency-converter\Provider\YahooApi.php at line 37
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$timeout = 0; curl_setopt($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); return explode(',', $rawdata)[1]@Geus
As of recent changes on Yahoo Terms of Service. As such, the service is being discontinued.
You can use other api providers.
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