Currency Converter (FreecurrencyAPI)

This module uses the FreecurrencyAPI service to obtain exchange rates
and uses them for calculations. Exchange rates are stored in a local database.
The module represents a block for calculating exchange rates.

Exchange rates are updated at certain intervals.
This update occurs when Cron is started, or it can be done manually in the module's
administrative interface.

Exchange rates are displayed via View. You can customize the display as you wish.
Under the hood, Currencies and Currency Rates are represented as Entities.

Installation Steps

• Enable the module Currency Converter (FreecurrencyAPI).
• Go to section Administration → Configuration → Web services → Administer Currency Converter (FreecurrencyAPI)
• • Go to the Settings tab and append FreecurrencyAPI Key.
  • Go to the Currencies tab and synchronize the data manually.
  • Go to the Rates tab and synchronize the data manually.
• Go to section Administration → Reports → Status report and run Cron to check data synchronization.
• Go to section Administration → Structure → Block layout and add a new Freecurrency Converter block wherever you want.
• In section Administration → Structure → Views you can modify Views Freecurrency Currencies and Freecurrency Rates.

Demonstration of capabilities

Use the following Drush command to generate data:

drush freecurrency-seeding

As a service

You can use the module as a service. To do this, just run the following call:

\Drupal::service('freecurrency.converter')->convert(
  $value_from,
  $value_to,
  $value_amount
);

Requirements

This module requires no modules outside of Drupal core.