I have been trying to convert the currencies using google finance converter in PHP.
I have used the following code.
$amount = 100;
$from_Currency = "INR";
$to_Currency = "BTC";
$amount = urlencode($amount);
$from_Currency = urlencode($from_Currency);
$to_Currency = urlencode($to_Currency);
$get = file_get_contents("https://finance.google.com/finance/converter?a=$amount&from=$from_Currency&to=$to_Currency&meta=ei%3DZsa7WeGkE4_RuASY95SQAw");
$get = explode("<span class=bld>",$get);
$get = explode("</span>",$get[1]);
$converted_amount = preg_replace("/[^0-9\.]/", null, $get[0]);
echo ceil($converted_amount);
?>
But i am getting the following error
Warning: file_get_contents(https://finance.google.com/finance/converter?a=100&from=INR&to=BTC&meta=ei%3DZsa7WeGkE4_RuASY95SQAw): failed to open stream: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond. in F:\Xampp\htdocs\test\index.php on line 11
Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in F:\Xampp\htdocs\test\index.php on line 16
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How to fix this error?
I had the same problem. I think that google has changed way to output the result. Try this (works for me, tested today at 12.14 PM CEST (UTC+2))
function convertCurrency($amount, $from, $to) {
$url = 'http://finance.google.com/finance/converter?a=' . $amount . '&from=' . $from . '&to=' . $to;
$data = file_get_contents($url);
preg_match_all("/<span class=bld>(.*)<\/span>/", $data, $converted);
$final = preg_replace("/[^0-9.]/", "", $converted[1][0]);
return round($final, 3);
}
echo convertCurrency(1, 'EUR', 'USD'); // output: 1.195
/* I got errors until i've changed this line:
$final = preg_replace("/[^0-9.]/", "", $converted[1]); to:
$final = preg_replace("/[^0-9.]/", "", $converted[1][0]);
.. maybe it works for your code too
*/
The above sort of worked for me when my script went wrong but the conversion was wrong for some reason. It seems that all I needed to do was update the URL in the script; I now have the following (I'm only converting one currency at a time but you should be able to work out how to adapt!):
function convertCurrency($to){
$url = "http://finance.google.com/finance/converter?a=1&from=GBP&to=$to";
// Previously: $url = "http://www.google.com/finance/converter?a=1&from=GBP&to=$to";
$request = curl_init();
$timeOut = 0;
curl_setopt ($request, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($request, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($request, CURLOPT_USERAGENT,"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1)");
curl_setopt ($request, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeOut);
$response = curl_exec($request);
curl_close($request);
$regularExpression = '#\<span class=bld\>(.+?)\<\/span\>#s';
preg_match($regularExpression, $response, $finalData);
$rate = $finalData[0];
$rate = strip_tags($rate);
$rate = substr($rate, 0, -4);
return $rate;
}
I hope this helps.
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Try this
Works for me.
Change it to:
$url = "https://finance.google.com/bctzjpnsun/converter?a=$amount&from=$from_Currency&to=$to_Currency";