Foreign Exchange Conversion Script

Does one exist?

[neophyte]

A client wants to have a FOREX page on his site.

Of course, he doesn't want to pay for one, and those which are available for free (the ones that I've found, anyway) take the user "off-site" to view the result of the conversion.

So, what to do?

There's probably a (very complicated ) way to do this in .php isn't there? Admittedly, this appears to be to be WAY over my head at this point in my .php learning curve, but the challenge interests me.

Has anyone else done something like this?

Neophyte

[IamStang]

You might have a look at this site. Found it on google and did not read through the entire tutorial.

[zend.com...]

Hope it helps.

IamStang

[GeorgeK]

If you go to Hotscripts.com and search for "Yahoo Finance", there are a few scripts to grab quotes.

Then, you just need to get the symbols (e.g., Canada USD is: [finance.yahoo.com...] ), and form a matrix, to get all the cross-currency rates.

[neophyte]

Thanks IamStang and GeorgeK. I'll take a look at both links provided and see what I can cobble together.

[jatar_k]

the script is dead easy, just basic math, the thing is to get rates from somewhere and keep them updated that is the problem.

[dmorison]

This thread might help:
[webmasterworld.com...]