Quicktech\ExchangeRate is a succinct and flexible way to use ExchangeRate API to convert currencies in Laravel 5 applications.
- In order to install Laravel 5, just add the following to your composer.json. Then run
composer update
:
"quicktech-as/exchange-rate": "^1.0"
- Open your
config/app.php
and add the following to theproviders
array:
Quicktech\ExchangeRate\ExchangeRateServiceProvider::class,
- In the same
config/app.php
and add the following to thealiases
array:
'ExchangeRate' => Quicktech\ExchangeRate\Facade\ExchangeRate::class,
- Run the command below to publish the package config file
config/exchange_rate.php
:
php artisan vendor:publish
Open your .env
file and setup your ExchangeRate credentials:
EXCHANGERATE_DEFAULT_CURRENCY = 'your default currency'
EXCHANGERATE_API_KEY = 'your api key'
EXCHANGERATE_API_URI = 'https://v3.exchangerate-api.com'
To get all rates based on your defult currency, you can use this resource:
$rates = ExchangeRate::rates();
The method above will return the following response:
[
"AUD" => 1.32230,
"BGN" => 1.8096,
"BRL" => 3.11,
"..." => 1.31135,
"..." => 7.473, etc. etc.
]
To convert currency value, you can use this resource:
$value = ExchangeRate::convert(10.00, 'USD', 'BRL');
// 31.11
Quicktech\ExchangeRate is free software distributed under the terms of the MIT license.
Please report any issue you find in the issues page.
Pull requests are welcome.