Dollar sign placement ???

[IntelCos]

Ok, this one has me scratin my head

In Canada we are both English and French whereas the $ placement is different between the two.

Can English uses $1.00

and

Can French is 1.00$

any clues on to how to set this?

[Ajeh]

Set it on the left ... and let the international method be standard and send the customers that whine a free gifty or discount coupon for their troubles?

[DrByte]

I think you'd have to get very very creative if you wanted to change that.

Possible Scenario:
- English customers: Use CAD and see $1.00, and view the site in english.
- French customers: Use new currency CFD and see 1,00$ and view the site in french.


To do this,
1. create a new currency called CFD (or whatever you wish), using $ as right symbol and , as decimal symbol. Set it to the same "value" as CAD so that there is no difference in exchange rate, etc.
2. Set Admin->Configuration->My Store->Switch To Default Language Currency = true.
3. Edit your french.php language file and set the language currency to CFD:
define('LANGUAGE_CURRENCY', 'CFD');
and english.php to CAD:
define('LANGUAGE_CURRENCY', 'CAD');


NOTE: This requires that you do not use any payment modules who care what currency you're submitting for payment.

[IntelCos]

Thks Doc, what payment methods would use or require this as you mentioned?

The methods being used on the new build site are

Check/Money Order, COD, EU Bank Transfer, InternetSecure, Paypal


Linda,,,snicker

[Ajeh]

PayPal says ...

use only the real International xchange curreny codes ...

As will any other automatic currency translation ...

DrByte's method "fakes" it in Zen Cart to sooth your customers ... but does not work with the rest of the world ...

Money only knows money ... and unless you:

1 buy a small island and print your own

2 write a special translator to interpret the interpreted currency you "faked" in Zen Cart into something those in the real world know what you mean

you will not be able to use that method as they won't know CFD from ABC ...

This means ... unless you know how to build a translator for Zen Cart to talk to outside payment gateways ... you will make a real mess trying to make 2 currencies that are really the same currency but look different ...

One way that might work is to use 1 currency ... and get into the currency class and change the format based on language to switch the left and right symbol around ... and help it display different but not use 2 currencies to achieve this and then not run amuck with the exchange rates ...

Got all that?

[DrByte]

To piggyback off Linda's thought, you could try this:

includes/classes/currencies.php
around line 42 you have:

      $currencies->MoveNext(); 

Add this BEFORE that line:

      /*** if language == FR and currency == CAD, swap left/right symbols for display **/
      if (strtoupper($_SESSION['languages_code']) == 'FR' && $currencies->fields['code'] == 'CAD') {
        $this->currencies[$currencies->fields['code']]['symbol_left'] = $currencies->fields['symbol_right'];
        $this->currencies[$currencies->fields['code']]['symbol_right'] = $currencies->fields['symbol_left'];
      } 

[IntelCos]

That works, still some testing to do, but on the visual part it is fine.

[mudar]

A cleaner way would be to do the modification in the "languages" section.

I've added the code to "myzencart/includes/languages/mytemplate/french.php", around line 47 right after

  define('LANGUAGE_CURRENCY', 'CAD'); 

add the following

// Convert CAD currency display to french format
  if ( $currencies->is_set( 'CAD' ) ) {
    $currencies->currencies['CAD']['symbol_left'] = '';
    $currencies->currencies['CAD']['symbol_right'] = ' $';
    $currencies->currencies['CAD']['decimal_point'] = ',';
    $currencies->currencies['CAD']['thousands_point'] = ' ';
  } 

Note: 'thousands_point' cannot be set to nbsp; because it's length is limited to one character.

[mudar]

Same as above, but for all currencies

// Convert currencies format to french 
  foreach( $currencies->currencies as $code => $currency_type ) {
    $currencies->currencies[$code]['symbol_right'] = ' ' . $currency_type['symbol_left'];
    $currencies->currencies[$code]['symbol_left'] = '';
    $currencies->currencies[$code]['decimal_point'] = ',';
    $currencies->currencies[$code]['thousands_point'] = ' ';
  } 

[DrByte]

Same as above, but for all currencies

And, why would you want to do that for "all" currencies?