Films.ie finally went live this evening (thanks to James Larkin for the design work)
The problem I am trying to find a solution to is the currency conversion.
At the moment it is using a static value, so I have to manually change it, which is not exactly practical.
Does anyone know of a service that allows you to get the value on a daily basis and write it to file?
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currencysource.com provide currency exchange rate updates via RSS.
Oooo! That’s nice. Now all I have to do is bribe a programmer to parse it for me 🙂
Hmm.. parsing… I presume you are using a Unix box, and are looking to automate… the actual execution of the parse itself is quite straightforward, and might look something like this:
awk ‘{if(index($0,”eur = usd”)) print substr($0,index($0,”(“)+1,length($0))}’ EUR.xml |awk ‘{print substr($0,1,index($0,” “)-2)}’ >usd.txt
where
1: “usd” in the “eur = usd” stands for US dollars, and can replaced by whatever other three letter indicator (such as gbp for UK pounds)
2: EUR.xml is the your local copy of the feed XML file
3: usd.txt is the output file, which will contain a single line, such as below
1.34030
eg http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=13.98+GBP+in+EUR
I’m not sure but it might work despite not being the exact currency at the moment.
I’ve integrated the currency converter at http://www.xe.com into a clients site before but it was very expensive.
wxfran – that’s the kind of thing I was looking for 🙂
Ken – I guess that’s how they make their money
Also the European Central Bank has an rss feed with the exchange rates.
See http://www.ecb.eu/stats/exchange/eurofxref/html/index.en.html
Have the IEDR really gone lax on how they assign domain names? I thought discretionary names were given for non-profit purposes?
David – No. The discretionary names can be registered for any use as long as you follow the rules
I realy like the logos on all the Blacknight sites (armchair, search, browse, films)
Ambrand – those sites are mine – not the company’s 🙂