Thread: Currency conversion through XML

class CurrencyConverter {
  
   var $xml_file = "www.ecb.int/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml";
   var $mysql_host, $mysql_user, $mysql_pass, $mysql_db, $mysql_table;
   var $exchange_rates = array();
 
   //Load Currency Rates
   function CurrencyConverter($host,$user,$pass,$db,$tb) {
      $this->mysql_host = $host;
      $this->mysql_user = $user;
      $this->mysql_pass = $pass;
      $this->mysql_db = $db;
      $this->mysql_table = $tb;
 
      $this->checkLastUpdated();
 
      $conn = mysql_connect($this->mysql_host,$this->mysql_user,$this->mysql_pass);
 
      $rs = mysql_select_db($this->mysql_db,$conn);
 
      $sql = "SELECT * FROM ".$this->mysql_table;
 
      $rs =  mysql_query($sql,$conn);
   
      while($row = mysql_fetch_array($rs)) {
         $this->exchange_rates[$row['currency']] = $row['rate'];         
      }
   }
 
   /* Perform the actual conversion, defaults to £1.00 GBP to USD */
   function convert($amount=1,$from="GBP",$to="USD",$decimals=2) {
      return(number_format(($amount/$this->exchange_rates[$from])*$this->exchange_rates[$to],$decimals));
   }
 
   /* Check to see how long since the data was last updated */
   function checkLastUpdated() {
      $conn = mysql_connect($this->mysql_host,$this->mysql_user,$this->mysql_pass);
 
      $rs = mysql_select_db($this->mysql_db,$conn);
 
      $sql = "SHOW TABLE STATUS FROM ".$this->mysql_db." LIKE '".$this->mysql_table."'";
 
      $rs =  mysql_query($sql,$conn);
 
      if(mysql_num_rows($rs) == 0 ) {
         $this->createTable();
      } else {
         $row = mysql_fetch_array($rs);
         if(time() > (strtotime($row["Update_time"])+(12*60*60)) ) {
            $this->downloadExchangeRates();         
         }
      }
   }
 
   /* Download xml file, extract exchange rates and store values in database */
   function downloadExchangeRates() {
      $currency_domain = substr($this->xml_file,0,strpos($this->xml_file,"/"));
      $currency_file = substr($this->xml_file,strpos($this->xml_file,"/"));
      $fp = @fsockopen($currency_domain, 80, $errno, $errstr, 10);
      if($fp) {
         $out = "GET ".$currency_file." HTTP/1.1\r\n";
         $out .= "Host: ".$currency_domain."\r\n";
         $out .= "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5\r\n";
         $out .= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";
         fwrite($fp, $out);
         while (!feof($fp)) {
            $buffer .= fgets($fp, 128);
         }
         fclose($fp);
 
     $pattern = "{<Cube\s*currency='(\w*)'\s*rate='([\d\.]*)'/>}is";
        
         preg_match_all($pattern,$buffer,$xml_rates);
         array_shift($xml_rates);
 
         for($i=0;$i<count($xml_rates[0]);$i++) {
            $exchange_rate[$xml_rates[0][$i]] = $xml_rates[1][$i];
         }
 
         $conn = mysql_connect($this->mysql_host,$this->mysql_user,$this->mysql_pass);
 
         $rs = mysql_select_db($this->mysql_db,$conn);
            
         foreach($exchange_rate as $currency=>$rate) {
            if((is_numeric($rate)) && ($rate != 0)) {
               $sql = "SELECT * FROM ".$this->mysql_table." WHERE currency='".$currency."'";
               $rs =  mysql_query($sql,$conn) or die(mysql_error());
               if(mysql_num_rows($rs) > 0) {
                  $sql = "UPDATE ".$this->mysql_table." SET rate=".$rate." WHERE currency='".$currency."'";
               } else {
                  $sql = "INSERT INTO ".$this->mysql_table." VALUES('".$currency."',".$rate.")";
               }
               $rs =  mysql_query($sql,$conn) or die(mysql_error());
            }
         }   
      }
   }
 
   /* Create the currency exchange table */
   function createTable() {
      $conn = mysql_connect($this->mysql_host,$this->mysql_user,$this->mysql_pass);
 
      $rs = mysql_select_db($this->mysql_db,$conn);
 
      $sql = "CREATE TABLE ".$this->mysql_table." ( currency char(3) NOT NULL default '', rate float NOT NULL default '0', PRIMARY KEY(currency) ) ENGINE=MyISAM";
      
      $rs =  mysql_query($sql,$conn) or die(mysql_error());
 
      $sql = "INSERT INTO ".$this->mysql_table." VALUES('EUR',1)";
 
      $rs =  mysql_query($sql,$conn) or die(mysql_error());
      
      $this->downloadExchangeRates();   
   }
 
}
 
?>

//Usage

<?php include('CurrencyConverter.php'); $x = new CurrencyConverter('your_host','your_username','your_password','your_database_name','your_table_name'); echo $x->convert(2.50,'GBP','USD'); ?>

var $xml_file = "www.ecb.int/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml";