Yii2 Currency Converter

This extension will help to find out current currency conversion rate using various providers.

Documentation is at https://github.com/imanilchaudhari/yii2-currency-converter/blob/master/docs/README.md.

Version 1 docs are located at here.

Requirements

• PHP version 7.4 or later
• Curl Extension (Optional)

Installation

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

Either run

php composer.phar require --prefer-dist imanilchaudhari/yii2-currency-converter "3.1"

or add

"imanilchaudhari/yii2-currency-converter": "3.1"

to the require section of your composer.json file.

Usage

Once the extension is installed, use it in your code by adding the below code on the config's components :

'components' => [
    'currencyConverter' => [
        'class' => 'imanilchaudhari\CurrencyConverter\CurrencyConverter',
        'provider' => [
            'class' => 'imanilchaudhari\CurrencyConverter\Provider\ExchangeRatesApi',
        ],
    ],
    ...
],

and use as

$rate = Yii::$app->currencyConverter->convert('USD', 'NPR');

OR

use imanilchaudhari\CurrencyConverter\CurrencyConverter;
use imanilchaudhari\CurrencyConverter\Provider\ExchangeRatesApi;

$converter = new CurrencyConverter([
    'provider' => [
        'class' => ExchangeRatesApi::class,
    ],
]);
$rate =  $converter->convert('USD', 'NPR');

print_r($rate);  // it will print the current Nepalese currency (NPR) rate according to USD

Exchange Rate Providers

• ApiForexApi - Get exchange rates from https://api.forex/
• CurrencyApi - Get exchange rates from https://currencyapi.com/
• CurrencyFreaksApi - Get exchange rates from https://currencyfreaks.com/
• CurrencylayerApi - Get exchange rates from https://currencylayer.com/
• ExchangeRatesApi - Get exchange rates from https://www.exchangerate-api.com/ (Free, no billing required)
• FixerApi - Get exchange rates from https://fixer.io/
• OpenExchangeRatesApi - Get exchange rates from https://openexchangerates.org/

Testing

Unit testing

The package is tested with PHPUnit. To run tests:

./vendor/bin/phpunit

License

The Yii2 Currency Converter is free software. It is released under the terms of the MIT License. Please see LICENSE for more information.