Comma as decimal separator in quantity field

[miriam_t]

Hello @all!

I've a problem that was'nt solved as far as I searched for a solution:

We are selling cloth in a european country and the quantities are measured with a comma instead of a point. I managed to change the appearance of the prices in the shop so that prices are shown correctly as 10,50 Euro per meter. BUT:

I really need to set the comma as decimal separator also for the quantity! People go and override the shown minimum quantity with a comma-value and get a message stack output, that the item is in the shopping cart, but it wasn't processed correctly.

The best would be a solution, where the input of a comma results in a point for the quantity in the shopping cart. This can be done probably by javascript?

At least I need a hint / error message for the customer when he puts in a comma in the quantity field.

Does anybody know a solution like this?

I already found a forum post regarding this: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=102569

But I hope it is ok to start this new as it should be a general customization question in frontend, I think.

[spid3r1987]

so on the quantity, AFAIK, you cannot enter a "special" character..
e.g ,./? etc

i may be proven wrong on this :)

[miriam_t]

You can - but it will not be processed correctly except for the point (.). If configured in admin/configuration/stock management/Decimals in quantity you can choose how many decimals are allowed. So I can give 2 decimals to my quantities to allow customers to buy 0.5 meter of cloth. Zen Cart also manages the minimum quantity there and everything works correct: but with the point - not with a comma.

And that's the problem: my customers are used to commas as decimal separator and there is nothing I could do about that. They will use the comma to put 0,5 meter cloth in the shopping cart - but Zen Cart will put nothing in the shopping cart because it doesn't accept the comma. Currently they don't even see an error message.

So I really have to solve that.

Any ideas?

[rstevenson]

admin/localization/Currencies

Select your currency and click Edit. Change the decimal point and thousands separator as you wish.

Rob

[miriam_t]

Yes! I've done that already - but this doesn't change the quantity decimal!!!

It does apply to the prices - and there it's working. But the quantity decimal isn't changed by that currency decimal modification.

admin/localization/Currencies
Select your currency and click Edit. Change the decimal point and thousands separator as you wish.

I interchanged point and comma to get european style prices like EUR 15,45 or EUR 1.500,45. But this does not apply the decimal in the quantity field!

Is there another idea?

[rstevenson]

Right! I see now.

All the references I could find in the database were also related to currency decimal places.

Let's hope the devs chime in. They may be the only ones who could figure this out.

Rob

[miriam_t]

I need to push that as I haven't found a solution to this problem yet.

Is it possible to change the decimal in the quantity field to a comma? Perhaps the same function can be used which does this for the currency field?

Please....

[miriam_t]

I must admit that this problem hasn't been solved yet. Current version of my shop is: 1.3.8 with some fixes.

Is this probably solved in 1.3.9? I still didn't update because of some changes...