Re: Re: Package proposal: Payment_Exchange

Alan Knowles wrote:

I'd turn the thing into a factory patern - defaulting to euro central bank.

I've never even heard of "factory patterns" before. I just looked quickly on Google and found something[1] describing "abstract factory patterns" using PEAR DB as an example, talking about how you call DB::connect('mysql') and it creates a DB_mysql object. Is that what you're referring to? How would more drivers be installed? I see this as a good use of subpackages. If someone wanted to write a driver for 'mybank,' but 'mybank' was an Access database (I found some of those), then you'd probably want to add a dependency on DB.

Imagine in Asia or the US - it's going to be alot better to query a local source... (which may provide the data in a different format)

I'm in the US and the speeds aren't bad across my host's dual-OC12s, but I agree and will work on that. :)

Someone may want to write a driver to do factory('mybank') and get real rates....

What do you mean by "real rates"? -- Marshall Roch [1] http://www.horde.org/papers/kongress2002-design_patterns/8_abstractfactory.xml.html