New Module: ECB Exchange Rate Services

[Traumflug]

With Fixer.io changing their API and requesting custom keys, the idea came up to grab exchange rates directly from the European Central Bank (ECB).

It turns out, the ECB actually encourages users and code writers to do this. See the code samples at the bottom of https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policyandexchangerates/euroreferenceexchangerates/html/index.en.html

One long night later, a thirty bees module has formed around this ECB service. Say hello to module ecbexchange / ECB Exchange Rate Services:

01529100100674ecbexchange-master.zip

This module pretty much replaces the fixerio module. Same feature set, same faceless operations. Install ecbexchange, then go to back office -> Localization -> Currencies and hit the Update Currency Rates button. A second later, see your exchange rates renewed. Simple and effective, wonderful!

Will put this module onto Github, make a tagged release and probably also part of the standard distribution before too long.

[colorful-ant]

Thank you very much! Manually updating the currencies with this module worked. After the weekend, I hope it works just as well on the cron job.

[Traumflug]

Will put this module onto Github, make a tagged release and probably also part of the standard distribution before too long.

Here we go:

https://github.com/thirtybees/ecbexchange/releases/tag/1.0.0

This release is identical to the ZIP I posted above, no need to upgrade from that.

[Traumflug]

There's already a new release :-) Our automated regression testing, Travis CI, found an incompatibility with PHP 5.5. This got fixed with release 1.0.1:

https://github.com/thirtybees/ecbexchange/releases/tag/1.0.1

No need to upgrade for those running PHP 5.6...7.1.

[wakabayashi]

I just installed it. Seems to work perfectly fine! Thanks a lot!