Currency Update (Automatic)

[kuroi]

require_once($location.'includes/configure.php');

gave the error: Failed opening required '../includes/configure.php'

which, as you can see, has it looking for the script in the wrong place.

...being why the installation instructions say to set the location to reflect the local installation.

Fixing that error it was then looking for a cURL Proxy, which would be fine if this were a GoDaddy server, or any other company that provides cURL via a Proxy, but we don't. Each site has cURL installed.

Which is why I recommended to your client that he use the original, non-CURL version.

There is another major problem with the script. It is trying to access the XE and OANDA currency exchanges, both of which changed their policies about 2 years ago to disallow outside connections to their database unless you have a licence, which costs around $2,500 a year. In reality this means that you will occasionally be lucky and be able to connect to their db, but at other times the connection will be blocked

With which I agree - though the original script was released before these changes. It's also worth noting that the code in this mod is basically the core Zen Cart code for currency updates with slight amendments to recognize that it may be installed in a different place and executed in a slightly different way.

There are now sites offering proper APIs that obviate the need for screen scrapping. Unfortunately nobody has yet contributed a mod based on this approach. Are you offering ...?