Laravel-swap

Swap allows you to retrieve currency exchange rates from various services such as Fixer, currencylayer or 1Forge and optionally cache the results.

QuickStart

Installation

$ composer require florianv/laravel-swap php-http/message php-http/guzzle6-adapter

Laravel

Configure the Service Provider and alias:

// /config/app.php
'providers' => [
    Swap\Laravel\SwapServiceProvider::class
],

'aliases' => [
    'Swap' => Swap\Laravel\Facades\Swap::class
]

Publish the Package configuration

$ php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Swap\Laravel\SwapServiceProvider"

Lumen

Configure the Service Provider and alias:

// /boostrap/app.php

// Register the facade
$app->withFacades(true, [
    Swap\Laravel\Facades\Swap::class => 'Swap'
]);

// Load the configuration
$app->configure('swap');

// Register the service provider
$app->register(Swap\Laravel\SwapServiceProvider::class);

Copy the configuration to /config/swap.php if you wish to override it.

Usage

// Get the latest EUR/USD rate
$rate = Swap::latest('EUR/USD');

// 1.129
$rate->getValue();

// 2016-08-26
$rate->getDate()->format('Y-m-d');

// Get the EUR/USD rate yesterday
$rate = Swap::historical('EUR/USD', Carbon\Carbon::yesterday());

Documentation

The complete documentation can be found here.

Sponsors

We are proudly supported by the following echange rate providers offering free plans up to 1,000 requests per day:

Fixer

Fixer is a simple and lightweight API for foreign exchange rates that supports up to 170 world currencies. They provide real-time rates and historical data, however, EUR is the only available base currency on the free plan.

currencylayer

Currencylayer provides reliable exchange rates and currency conversions for your business up to 168 world currencies. They provide real-time rates and historical data, however, USD is the only available base currency on the free plan.

1Forge

1Forge provides Forex and Cryptocurrency quotes for over 700 unique currency pairs. They provide the fastest price updates available of any provider, however, they don’t support smaller currencies or historical data.

Services

Here is the list of the currently implemented services:

Credits

• Florian Voutzinos
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see LICENSE for more information.