Currency Conversion using PHP

Question

I'm looking for a way to convert any amount from one currency to another on a website. The user would enter something like '100' and select USD as the currency, and then chooses Australian or Canadian dollars as the currency to convert to. When he clicks the 'Convert' button, I'd like to convert that amount automatically, through some API, and show him the amount in the currency he chose to convert to.

Any ideas which could help me?

Answer 1

Please find below an example of converting a EUR to a USD

$url = 'http://www.webservicex.net/CurrencyConvertor.asmx/ConversionRate?FromCurrency=EUR&ToCurrency=USD'; $xml = simpleXML_load_file($url,"SimpleXMLElement",LIBXML_NOCDATA); if($xml === FALSE) { //deal with error } else { $rate = $xml; }

Hopefully, this helps you get what you were looking for.