How to get the Currency Rate from Third Party API?
This Small function is used to call the API & get the currency Conversion Rate.
By using this you can get easily the conversion rate.
$fromCurrency = "USD"; $toCurrency = "INR"; if (!empty($fromCurrency) && !empty($toCurrency) ){ $currencyString = strtoupper($fromCurrency.'_'.$toCurrency); $fetchUrl = 'http://free. currencyconverterapi.com/api/ v5/convert?q='.$ currencyString.'&compact=y'; try { $handle_contents = file_get_contents($fetchUrl); $contentsDecoded= @json_decode($handle_contents, TRUE); if(!empty($contentsDecoded[$ currencyString])){ $curData = $contentsDecoded[$ currencyString]; if(!empty($curData['val'])){ $conversion_rate = floatval($curData['val']); } } } catch (Exception $e) { $conversion_rate = 0; } } # Now, Show the Result:: print_r($conversion_rate);