Getting currency conversion data from Yahooapis now that iGoogle is gone

Question

Up until yesterday I had a perfectly working budget organizer site/app working with iGoogle.

Through PHP, using the following little line

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Answer 1

I created a routine to convert the currency based on @QuestionerNo27 http://jamhubsoftware.com/geoip/currencyconvertor.php?fromcur=USD&tocur=EUR&amount=1 you can consume this

    results->rate[$i]->Name; //<-- Get the name of the pair and turn it into a string (this looks like this: "USD to EUR").
    $rate = (string)$xml->results->rate[$i]->Rate; //<-- Do the same for the actual rate resulting from the conversion.
    $exchange[$name] = $rate; //<-- Put the data pairs into the array.
endfor; //<-- End for loop. :)
// ** WORK WITH EXCHANGE INFO ** //
$conv = $fromcur . '/' . $tocur;
$toeur = array( //<-- Create new array specific for conversion to one of the units needed.
         $tocur => $amt*$exchange[$conv], //<-- Create an array key for each unit used. In this case, in order to get the conversion of USD to EUR I ask for it from my $exchange array with the pair Name.
         $fromcur => $amt,
         "ex_amt" =>$amt*$exchange[$conv]); //<-- The way I coded the app, I found it more practical to also create a conversion for the unit into itself and simply use a 1, which translates into "do not convert"

echo json_encode($toeur);

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