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evolutionscript/currency\_api
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Get currency rates from free APIs.

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Free Currency API
=================

[](#free-currency-api)

The Free Currency API connects with some exchangers to get the current currency rate.

This library works with cache to prevent exceeding the API usage limit.

**Installation:**

```
composer require evolutionscript/currency_api
```

**Usage:**

```
use EvolutionScript\CurrencyAPI as CurrencyAPI;

$currencyAPI = new CurrencyAPI\Rate();
//Specify cache directory to save data and make a request once per day. It is optional but prevents exceeding the API usage limit.
$currencyAPI->cacheDirectory(__DIR__.'/cache');

//Connect with Currency Layer and as optional connect with OpenExchangeRates. The optional provider is useful if the primary provider fails.
$currencyAPI->provider(
	new CurrencyAPI\Providers\CurrencyLayer('CURRENCY_LAYER_API'),
	new CurrencyAPI\Providers\OpenExchangeRates('OPEN_EXCHANGE_RATES_API')
);
//Free Api accepts as base currency USD symbol, you can change it if you are using paid version
$rate = $currencyAPI->getRate('USD', 'PEN');
echo "The USDPEN rate is: ".$rate."";

//Calculate how much is 10 USD to PEN and return result with 2 decimals
$result = $currencyAPI->exchangeFrom($rate, 10, 2);
echo "10 USD is equivalent to ".$result." PEN";

//Calculate how much is 100 PEN to USD and result result with 2 decimals
$result = $currencyAPI->exchangeTo($rate, 100, 2);
echo "100 PEN is equivalent to ".$result." USD";
```

###  Health Score

23

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LowBetter than 26% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity48

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

1460d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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