FreecurrencyAPI

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FreecurrencyAPI#

This service retrieves the data from FreecurrencyAPI.

Installation#

Install the service:

composer require peso/freecurrencyapi-service

Install the service with all recommended dependencies:

composer require peso/freecurrencyapi-service php-http/discovery guzzlehttp/guzzle symfony/cache

Usage#

Example:

<?php

use Peso\Peso\CurrencyConverter;
use Peso\Services\FreecurrencyApiService;
use Symfony\Component\Cache\Adapter\FilesystemAdapter;
use Symfony\Component\Cache\Psr16Cache;

$cache = new Psr16Cache(new FilesystemAdapter(directory: __DIR__ . '/cache'));
$service = new FreecurrencyApiService('...', cache: $cache);
$converter = new CurrencyConverter($service);

// 10760.13 as of 2025-07-18
echo $converter->convert('12500', 'USD', 'EUR', 2), PHP_EOL;

// you can optionally limit the retrieved symbols
$cache = new Psr16Cache(new FilesystemAdapter(directory: __DIR__ . '/cache'));
$service = new FreecurrencyApiService('...', [
    'EUR', 'USD', 'JPY', 'CHF'
], $cache);
$converter = new CurrencyConverter($service);

// ...
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