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currencylayer API - PHP client

Currencylayer provides a JSON-based REST API, delivering reliable and accurate currency exchange rates for 168 world currencies and precious metals at an affordable price, which makes it the perfect instrument for startups and online businesses, as well as for larger companies in need of reliable financial data via an easy to use interface. The currencylayer API is widely used to power financial departments, mobile applications and back-office systems around the world.

Features

• Real-time Exchange Rates
• Historical Rates back to 1999
• Currency Conversion
• Time-Frame Queries
• Currency-Change Queries

Website: currencylayer.com

Installation

With Composer RECOMMENDED

composer require oceanapplications/currencylayer-php-client

Use OceanApplications\currencylayer;

$currencylayer = new currencylayer\client('API Key');

without composer

Download and extract the latest release to /your/libs/currencylayer/

require_once '/your/libs/currencylayer/php-client/src/currencylayer/client.php';
$currencylayer = new \currencylayer\client('YOUR_ACCESS_KEY');

Usage

Example: Request real-time rates via "live" endpoint

$result = $currencylayer
  ->source('USD')
  ->currencies('JPY,GBP,AUD')
  ->live();

Example: Request historical rates via "historical" endpoint

$result = $currencylayer
  ->date('2015-01-01')
  ->source('USD')
  ->currencies('JPY,GBP,AUD')
  ->historical();

Example: Convert currencies via "convert" endpoint

$result = currencylayer
  ->from('USD')
  ->to('JPY')
  ->amount('10')
  ->date('2015-01-01')
  ->convert();

Example: Request time-frame (time-series) data via "timeframe" endpoint

$result = $currencylayer
  ->source('USD')
  ->currencies('JPY,GBP,AUD')
  ->start_date('2014-01-01')
  ->end_date('2014-02-01')
  ->timeframe();

Example: Request currency-change data via "change" endpoint

$result = $currencylayer
  ->source('USD')
  ->currencies('JPY,GBP,AUD')
  ->start_date('2014-01-01')
  ->end_date('2014-02-01')
  ->change();

API Documentation

See: currencylayer.com/documentation

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