Jeremy, Try this recipe if it suits your purpose: "call http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi with a METHOD=POST with the following variables set: Amount, From, To".
NB: If you used WorldPay, your app can fetch a basket of up-to-date currency rates from them at will, e.g. daily. From: "Jeremy Coulter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List'" <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [DUG-Offtopic] currency onverters Date sent: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:56:13 +1300 Send reply to: NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List <[email protected]> <offtopic.ns3.123.co.nz> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Actually, I found a very cunning way to do this. > I found a site where you can download an XML file of the NZ$'s rate. > Unfortunitly, it goes back to 1994 or something (881KB) , but when its > downloaded, I let the parsing happend so I end up with just the values, > and I know how many values there are, so I jump to the end one, and > thats the latest value, then I just do the maths from there. > I am just using the "MSXML2.DOMDocument" object in an ASP page which is > where I want to use it, and it seems to work just fine ! > > BUT, this is prob. not ideal, so if anyone know of any site as per my > original question, I would still like to hear. > > Thanks, Jeremy > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeremy Coulter > Sent: Wednesday, 22 December 2004 22:29 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [DUG-Offtopic] currency onverters > > > Hi All. > I am interested to know if anyone has seen a currency converter that you > can pass a value to and the currency to convert to and from, that > returns the converted amount? > What I am looking at is (sorry this is via a web page), passing the info > required, then having that come back converted so I can put it into a > variable that then populated some data into another webpage. > > the idea is, person comes to the website, then they select the item to > purchase, then the page passes the value to a converter script > somewhere, which returns the value, this value is passed to another > page, and then used on that page. > > the idea is, show NZ $$ prices, but have it converted to US$ so that I > dont have to wathc the news at night and then alter the prices on the > webpage :-) > > Jeremy > > cheers, peter =========================================== Peter Hyde, Development Director, SPIS Ltd, Christchurch, New Zealand * TCompress/TCompLHA component sets for Delphi/Kylix/C++ * TurboNote+: http://TurboNote.com -- top-rated onscreen sticky notes Find all the above and MORE at http://spis.co.nz _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic
