An example exchange rate converter for real time exchange rate conversion is implemented using the yahoo exchange rate interface

The code is as follows:

function getExchangeRate($from_Currency,$to_Currency)
{
        $amount = urlencode($amount);
        $from_Currency = urlencode($from_Currency);
        $to_Currency = urlencode($to_Currency);
        $url = "download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.html?s=".$from_Currency.$to_Currency."=X&f=sl1d1t1ba&e=.html";
        $ch = curl_init();
        $timeout = 0;
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt($ch,  CURLOPT_USERAGENT , "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1)");
          curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
        $rawdata = curl_exec($ch);
        curl_close($ch);
        $data = explode(',', $rawdata);
        return $data[1];
}
// A method is called 
echo getExchangeRate("CNY","USD");