Poor mans currency conversion
Posted on July 3, 2007
I recently completed a project that required currency conversion. I was limited what I could get out through the corporate firewall, so I came up with this.
It connects to Yahoo! with curl and reads a CSV string into memory.
This example shows how many JPY (Yen) are in 1 GBP (Sterling).
$ch = curl_init('http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=JPYGBP=X&f=sl1d1t1ba&e=.csv');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$currency = curl_exec($ch);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS,1);
curl_exec($ch);
echo curl_error($ch);
curl_close($ch);
It will return something like this
"JPYGBP=X",0.0041,"7/3/2007","5:16pm",0.0041,0.0041
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