exchange rate feeds?

Anon

Would anyone happen to know of a site that supplies real-time exchange rates perhaps as a rss feed or csv file, etc?

rgds,
scott d~

Anon

Quite off topic here.. you might want to check a stockmarket-type site.

Anon

Yeah I know I've been looking around....I thought I'd get some answers from the phpbuilder crowd cos' they seem to have just about accomplished everything else.

rgds,
scott d`

Anon

Its not a php script, however it will get the current exchange rate,

http://www.xe.net/ecc/shoppers/

I hope this works.

Eric.

Anon

Yeah, thanx I saw that one before.....if anyone is ever interested in this topic I found something at www.oanda.com where you can get a live feed for a small fee.

rgds,
scott d`

Anon

Hi there

I wrote (hacked) a script to obtain exchange rates from yahoo.com and dump them in a file to be used later:

<HEAD>
<TITLE>Exchange Rates</TITLE>

</HEAD>

<BODY>
<?
$ratesfile="rates.inc";
$type = array("GBP", "EUR", "USD", "AUD", "HKD", "JPY", "SGD", "THB");

$money[0]=file('http://quote.yahoo.com/m5?a=1&t=GBP&s=GBP');

$money[1]=file('http://quote.yahoo.com/m5?a=1&t=EUR&s=GBP');

$money[2]=file('http://quote.yahoo.com/m5?a=1&t=USD&s=GBP');

$money[3]=file('http://quote.yahoo.com/m5?a=1&t=AUD&s=GBP');

$money[4]=file('http://quote.yahoo.com/m5?a=1&t=HKD&s=GBP');

$money[5]=file('http://quote.yahoo.com/m5?a=1&t=JPY&s=GBP');
$money[6]=file('http://quote.yahoo.com/m5?a=1&t=SGD&s=GBP');
$money[7]=file('http://quote.yahoo.com/m5?a=1&t=THB&s=GBP');

$fp=fopen($ratesfile,"w");
fputs($fp,"<%\n");
for($i=0; $i<sizeof($money); $i++){

$money[$i] = join("",$money[$i]);

$money[$i] = ereg_replace(".<table border=1 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0>",'',$money[$i]);

$money[$i] = ereg_replace("</table>.",'',$money[$i]);

$money[$i] = ereg_replace("</b>.",'',$money[$i]);

$money[$i] = ereg_replace(".<b>",'',$money[$i]);

fputs($fp, "\$$type[$i]=\"$money[$i]\";\n");
}
fputs($fp,"%>\n");
fclose($fp);
echo "Currencies Updated.\n";
?>

</BODY>

You need to create the file rates.inc in the same directory which should be writable (777) and ensure your server recognises <% %> style tags.

Good luck!!

Paul