Currency Update (Automatic)

**Athens Collectibles** · 18 Jan 2012, 05:38 PM

No cron jobs. No hands-off automated updating. Just a more reliable source for updates when you click on the "Update" button on the currencies screen.

Yes, but the rates update manually, don't they? The mod updates them automatically every day and you just set it up once and forget about it.

I have upgraded to ZC 1.5 and the mod still works fine.

**SPembleton** · 18 Jan 2012, 05:54 PM

Originally Posted by Athens Collectibles

Yes, but the rates update manually, don't they? The mod updates them automatically every day and you just set it up once and forget about it.

I have upgraded to ZC 1.5 and the mod still works fine.

The manual updating of the exchange rates is part of the base zencart software. I am still running my 1.3.9 store, but have a test store in 1.5.0. I am therefore able to test the currency updating side-by-side. Manually updating works better in 1.5.0. When I manually update in 1.3.9, I get errors that it cannot update AUS$ and Euros. I don't get that error in 1.5.0

This mod updates the rates when it is invoked. The timing for when the mod is invoked is set in your hosting site. I don't see any errors when it is invoked.

What I am still trying to determine is that some of the exchange rates are different between the 1.3.9 site and the 1.5.0 site. I am still trying to determine the cause. If I figure it out, I will come back here.

**Athens Collectibles** · 18 Jan 2012, 06:04 PM

Steve, the reason you see differences in rates is that 1.50 uses the ECB rates, while 1.3.9h takes the rates from oanda (a different provider).

**Black Uhuru** · 25 Oct 2012, 01:26 AM

Hi people,
I have a Zen Cart v1.5.0 site and everything works perfectly except this really-important mod. I spent many days trying to configure it and reading many possible sollutions in this thread, but I still can't configure it correctly. First I had problems setting the cron job at the cPanel, but I asked my hosting provider and they fixed it by writing "curl" just before the root of the file. Since then the cron job seems to work but currencies don't update in the admin. In the email I receive appears the following text:

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed

100 389 100 389 0 0 7245 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 7245
100 389 100 389 0 0 7227 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>406 Not Acceptable</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Acceptable</h1>
<p>An appropriate representation of the requested resource /currency_update.php could not be found on this server.</p>
<p>Additionally, a 404 Not Found
error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.</p>
</body></html>

Does anybody knows what am I doing wrong?
(sorry for my poor english)

**Black Uhuru** · 25 Oct 2012, 02:22 AM

I forgot to say that the file is in the root folder. I tested the v4 module and also the v3.1 "curled version", and I tried with many different roots with no success. Now I have this settings in the currency_update.php (of course replacing "my_user_name" with the real one):

define('/home/my_user_name/public_html/','/home/my_user_name/public_html/');
require_once(PATH_TO_STORE_ROOT . '/home/my_user_name/public_html/includes/configure.php');
require_once(PATH_TO_STORE_ROOT . '/home/my_user_name/public_html/includes/database_tables.php');

**Black Uhuru** · 25 Oct 2012, 10:31 PM

forget my question and excuse me!!
finally I found the sollution in post #139 (page 14) of this thread. Also, the first line I posted before was wrong (happens when you change the code thousand times

I still receive the same error mesage in the email from the cron job, but the mod works fine...

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