Currency Exchange Rate

[Guest]

How can I use CF (or some other app?) to have my page consistanly refresh with the current exhange rate for select foreign currencies.

Example:

Current: $1.00 = 5.16 Uz

[Guest]

You might check out the Web service at http://www.webservicex.net/WS/WSDetails.aspx?CATID=2&WSID=10.

[Guest]

Thanks for the link.

At the outset it seems to be what I'm looking for although the country I was interested in doesn't seem to be on the list (Uzbekistan).

Also, I'm not quite sure how their HTTP POST protocol test is supposed to work. Have you tried it?

[Guest]

Since you are interested in UZS conversion, you might look around coinmill.com at http://coinmill.com/UZS_calculator.html and see if there is something that will act as a Web service. And no, I have not tried out the Web service mentioned in my previous post.

[Guest]

Thanks.

Seems useful.

How did you discover this site?

[Guest]

> How did you discover this site?

I googled "currency conversion" som. It's the second listing.

[MTFX_Group]

Can I import data from some plugin, with this website, Foreign Exchange and keep it refereshing ? or when user try to input data it automatically pick from above website?

[Dave Watts]

Yes. I didn't look at the website but don't really have to. If your website has an API, you can create CF code to act as an API client to fetch the data. If your website doesn't have an API, you should change that, but in the meantime CF can be used to crawl HTTP/HTTPS content and parse data from it. That process, "screen scraping", is more fragile and harder to maintain.

To retrieve data on a scheduled basis, use the CF scheduler in the CF admin, the CFSCHEDULE tag, or your local OS scheduler to regularly run your CF code. To retrieve it using event handling, use JavaScript to capture the event and call your CF code in the background and fetch the value, then put the value in your user's page.

Dave Watts, Eidolon LLC