I'm setting up an online ordering system but I'm in Australia and for international customers I'd like to show prices in US dollars or Euros so they don't have to make the mental effort to convert from Australian dollars.
Does anyone know if I can pull up to date exchange rates off the net somewhere in an easy-to-parse format I can access from my PHP script ?
UPDATE: I have now written a PHP class which implements this. You can get the code from my website.
You can get currency conversions in a simple format from yahoo:
For example, to convert from GBP to EUR:
http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=GBPEUR=X&f=sl1d1t1ba&e=.csv
Might be nice to add
http://www.ecb.int/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml
to the list.
The official reference rates provides by the European Central Bank based on the regular daily concertation procedure between central banks within and outside the European System of Central Banks.
The feed is in XML and some other formats.
Updating normally takes place at 2.15 p.m. (14:15) ECB time (= Frankfurt time).
Here is a Soap service that offers exchange rate
This site has a currency converter service for free:
coinnill.com has a sort-of web-service.
will give you the AUD --> USD rate for example. You'll just need to parse the XML that comes back.
