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Using the Google currency converter

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For a project I’m working, I needed to get shipping rates from the UPS API (a blog post about this will follow soon).

The problem I ran into was that the UPS API returns the shipping rates with the currency of the country where the rates for are asked, so you can’t force it to always return the rates in EUR.

One solution to convert the prices is to make a very big array with all currency rates in it. I then would maintain the array every day at 9’o clock to check if the rates weren’t changed. Right, that’s not an option.
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Written by Sjoerd Maessen

January 11th, 2010 at 8:56 pm

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