Re: currency conversion

How legal is this? can u use it on a website? free? ----- Original Message ----- From: Robin Vickery <robin@planet-three.co.uk> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 10:46 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] currency conversion > >>>>> "c" == christian <chaines@webwork.com.au> writes: > > > does anyone know of a way to currency conversions with php? i want > > to grab the current currency from some kind of web site and then > > convert money to different currency value > > I'm sure plenty of people have done this properly, but here's a > quick hack to use Xe's currency converter. > > > <?php > > class currency > { > > function convert($amount, $from, $to) { > > $regex = "/[0-9.]+\s*$from\s*=\s*([0-9.]+)\s*$to/"; > > $return = file ("http://www.xe.net/ucc/convert.cgi?Amount=1&From=$from&To=$to"); > > foreach ($return as $line) { > if( preg_match($regex, $line, $match) ) break; > } > > if (!isset($match)) return false; > > return $amount * $match[1]; > > } > > } > > $money = new currency; > > print $money->convert( 10, "GBP", "AUD" ); > > ?> > > > -- > Robin Vickery................................................. > BlueCarrots, 14th Floor, 20 Eastbourne Terrace, London, W2 6LE > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >