Sample Code PHP (GET Request)

Forex Latest Prices: Find below a simple PHP example for getting exchange rate data via the API's latest endpoint.

$auth_key = "AUTH_KEY"; // Your API auth key, Signup to get API KEY
$symbol = "EUR/USD"; // FX Pairs

// Enter your API URL below
$api_url = "https://elklayer.com/api/v1/latest?symbol=".$symbol."&auth_key=".$auth_key;

// Initialize CURL:
$ch = curl_init($api_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$json = curl_exec($ch); // Store the data
curl_close($ch);

$response = json_decode($json, true); // convert JSON into Array
foreach ($response['response'] as $key => $value) {
  echo "<br>Open Price Of ".$value['symbol']." is ".$value['price']; // Open Price Of EUR/USD is 1.1266
}

Sample Code PHP (POST Request)

$auth_key = "AUTH_KEY"; // Your API auth key, Signup to get API KEY
$symbol = "EUR/USD"; // FX Pairs

// Enter your API URL below
$api_url = "https://elklayer.com/api/v1/latest";
$post = "symbol=".$symbol."&auth_key=".$auth_key;

// Initialize CURL:
$ch = curl_init($api_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
$json = curl_exec($ch); // Store the data
curl_close($ch);

$response = json_decode($json, true); // convert JSON into Array
foreach ($response['response'] as $key => $value) {
  echo "<br>Open Price Of ".$value['symbol']." is ".$value['price']; // Open Price Of EUR/USD is 1.1266
}

Sample Code jQuery.ajax

Find below a simple jQuery.ajax example of getting exchange rate data via the API's latest endpoint.

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.2.4.min.js"></script>
<script>
auth_key = "AUTH_KEY"; // Your API auth key, Signup to get API KEY
id = '1,2,3,4'; // Forex ids

$.ajax({
    url: "https://elklayer.com/api/v1/latest?id=" + id + "&auth_key=" + auth_key,
    type: "GET", // GET or POST
    dataType: "json",
    success: function(data) {
        console.log("Price of "+data.response[0].symbol + " is "+data.response[0].price); // Price of EUR/USD is 1.1064;
    }
});
</script>

Errors

There are multiple errors that help you to understand issue with your API response.