Comments on: Using Yahoo’s API to convert currencies with PHP

By: hm2k

hm2k — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:45:50 +0000

Thanks for your example, I used it in my ucc eggdrop tcl script.

By: Maputing Pinoy

Maputing Pinoy — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:54:58 +0000

Ang ganda ng code mo! Salamat!

By: IT Support London

IT Support London — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:14:16 +0000

Very useful.Just what I need.

By: jinson

jinson — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:36:47 +0000

Thanks.. :)

By: saleem

saleem — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:51:44 +0000

how can i send price value in the url? for example in the above example if i want to check 2USD in PHP then how can i send 2 in the url?

By: Synergy Informatics

Synergy Informatics — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:26:58 +0000

Thanks,

I’m looking similar to this for long..

Thanks

By: Chris W

Chris W — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:40:49 +0000

Thanks, perfect for those automated collection of Exchange rates!

By: Chits

Chits — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:46:17 +0000

Thanks Wenbert,

Actually I was making a application(currency converter) which supports many currencies..now the suggestion is good but the only problem is I have to make multiple request in a loop (when doing currency update) and keep track of all of the request..in a way a bit more of work ..

By: Wenbert

Wenbert — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:56:32 +0000

@chits, I am not sure. But using the single URL, i would store the values in my database then update my database with a cronjob. It would also be faster on your side because you will be querying your own database instead of the URL.

By: chits

chits — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:33:20 +0000

Hello Friends,

Is their a single URL bu which I can fetch the exchange rates of all the currency??
I mean I send one URL and response should be base currency and all other currency in its respect…

Thanks

By: sandeep

sandeep — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:08:12 +0000

Thank you its very helpful

By: Wenbert

Wenbert — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:39:52 +0000

@satish you simply multiply the output by 3? To be sure just try out the code ;)

By: satish

satish — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:01:11 +0000

Thank u, Its help full lot, If u want to convert 3USD to INR, then where the logic is? Please its urgent

By: thesun

thesun — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:07:53 +0000

Maraming salamat bro!!! been looking for this all over.

By: Ace Web Design

Ace Web Design — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:16:29 +0000

Brilliant. Exactly what I was looking for

By: James

James — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:06:39 +0000

Thanks a lot. I am searching for a long time

By: bhavik

bhavik — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:03:23 +0000

Thanks dude its working

By: ashish

ashish — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:13:45 +0000

Thanks Wenbert for your help and suggestion.

By: Wenbert

Wenbert — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:39:25 +0000

@ashish You can go to their finance website see what types of currencies they support. But I am guessing they can convert any currency.

Yahoo has unlimited resources ;) so you can use this as much as you want. But the smart thing to do is to “fetch” the data and store it in your database – you can use a cronjob to automatically fetch the currencies – autofetch the data every 30 minutes. Then, you query your database instead of querying Yahoo for every request. It will be safer this way.

By: ashish

ashish — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:21:43 +0000

It’s gr8 .. this is what I am looking for.

Do you have any idea about the currency type it support? Also, can i use this frequently? I mean is yahoo allow me to request this URL thousand times a day?