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PHP Currency Converter (Google Version)

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PHP Currency converter function that uses Google

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  1. function currency_convert($from,$to,$amount) {
  2. 	$string = "1".$from."=?".$to;
  3. 	$google_url = "http://www.google.com/ig/calculator?hl=en&q=".$string;
  4. 	$result = file_get_contents($google_url);
  5. 	$result = explode('"', $result);
  6. 	$converted_amount = explode(' ', $result[3]);
  7. 	$conversion = $converted_amount[0];
  8. 	$conversion = $conversion * $amount;
  9. 	$conversion = round($conversion, 2);
  10. 	$rhs_text = ucwords(str_replace($converted_amount[0],"",$result[3]));
  11. 	$rhs = $conversion.$rhs_text;
  12. 	$price = preg_replace('_^\D+|\D+$_', "", $rhs);
  13. 	return number_format($price, 2, '.', ',');
  14. }
  15. echo currency_convert('GBP', 'USD',800.00)

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