Well, they've given a URL to check the cost of using for commercial purposes, perhaps go check...
From: "Jeremy Coulter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List'" <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [DUG-Offtopic] currency onverters Date sent: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 22:43:38 +1300 Send reply to: NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List <[email protected]> <offtopic.ns3.123.co.nz> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Well, yes this is ok, BUT...there is a big legal notice in the html when > you do it..as below:- > > <WARNING> > <!-- > // *** LEGAL WARNING! *** > // > // IF YOU ARE READING THIS, YOU MAY BE CONSIDERING EXTRACTING RATE > DATA FROM XE.COM. > // THIS IS A VIOLATION OF THE LEGAL TERMS OF USE. DATA EXCTRACTION > IS NOT PERMITTED. > // REDISTRIBUTION OF THIS DATA IS PROHIBTED, AND ALL USE OF IT IS > STRICTLY GOVERNED > // BY THE LEGAL TERMS OF USE AGREEMENT LOCATED AT: > // http://www.xe.com/legal/ > // IF YOU NEED CURRENCY DATA FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES, WE CAN PROVIDE > IT. > // FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE SEE: http://www.xe.com/dfs/ > // > // WE CAN AND DO PURSUE LEGAL ACTION AGAINST VIOLATORS OF THE TERMS > OF USE AGREEMENT. > // > // --> > </WARNING> > > I might give this a miss I think :-D > > Jeremy > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 23 December 2004 18:53 > To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List > Subject: RE: [DUG-Offtopic] currency onverters > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Offtopic mailing list > [email protected] > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic > > 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
