saurabhbatra96 / wmf-assgn

WMF Assignment

Prerequisites

• PHP - 7.1.16
• MySQL - 5.6.41
• MySQL user root with pass root.
• A database named test in mysql.

How to run

• Using database test (or change the DB name property in code in file utils/DBWrapper.php), create required table by running sql/currency_rates_ddl.sql.
• Run $ php cron-job.php to get data from the API and populate the DB table.
• Run $ php main.php to activate the CLI.
• Input individual requests like JPY 500 or array requests like array( 'JPY 5000', 'CZK 62.5' )
• Input exit to quit the CLI.

Future improvement

• I've pointed out future improvements as inline comments in the code. Look for Future me [TODO]: ... comments.

Time to complete

Took a bit more than 3 hours to complete the task (including writing documentation and uploading).