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Currency converting bundle for Symfony2. Supports multiple exchange rate providers:

• Yahoo (free)
• Google (free)
• Currency API (free)
• chain (tries multiple if some is unavailable)

proper money handling using Martin Fowler's Money pattern implemented by mathiasverraes/money

1 Installation

1.1 Composer

"require": {
  ....
  "morbicer/converter-bundle": "dev"
},

or

php composer.phar require morbicer/converter-bundle

1.2 Enable the bundle

// app/AppKernel.php
public function registerBundles()
{
      $bundles = array(
        // ...
        new Morbicer\ConverterBundle\MorbicerConverterBundle(),
    );
}

1.3 Add config

# app/config.yml
morbicer_converter:
  default_provider: chain
  providers:
      yahoo: []
      google: []
      currency_api: []
      chain: [yahoo, currency_api, google]

Usage

//in controller, get service
$converter = $this->get('morbicer_converter.convert');
// $100 USD to EUR
$converted = $converter->convert(100, 'USD', 'EUR');
$result = array(
    'amount' => $converted->getAmount()/100,
    'currency' => (string)$converted->getCurrency(),
);