A small & simple package, but takes away the pain of communicating with an API directly to convert a certain amount of cash between 2 currencies. You can also get the conversion rate or an array with all known conversion rates based on a certain currency.
You can install the package via composer: (this package still needs to be added to Packagist for this to work.)
composer require burtds/cash-converterAfterwords, we'll need to publish the service provider.
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Burtds\CashConverter\CashConverterProvider"First of all we'll add the API key of the service we're using to our .env file of our project.
If you don't have an account yet on exchangerate-api.com, you should create one.
Once you have an account you can copy your API key from the dashboard page and put it into you .env file.
EXCHANGE_RATE_API_KEY="YOUR-API-KEY"
We'll need to import the Facade of this package on top of your file.
use Burtds\CashConverter\Facades\CashConverter;Once that is done, you'll be able to use the conversion functions.
CashConverter::getRates('EUR'); // returns an array of the currenct converison rates based on the given currency, in this case Euro's
CashConverter::getRate('EUR','USD'); // returns the currenct conversion rate for Euro to US Dollars
CashConverter::convert('EUR','USD', 25); // returns the converted vanlue in US Dollars for the given 25 EurosIf you discover a security vulnerability within this package, please send me an e-mail via bert@bert.gent. I'll get back at you as soon as possible.
And u huge thanks to Freek Van der Herten for guidence.
This package is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.