Currency redirection behaviour

[acetate]

Hi All,

I have set up a couple of links on my site to allow customers to select a preferred currency. This is working however when the currency is changed Zen Cart redirects the customer back to the home page.

I would prefer if the customer can change their currency and be redirected back to the page they were previously on.

Often the customer will only want to see the price in their native currency when they have found an item they like, but after changing the currency they are forced to renavigate their way from the initial home page all the way back to the item.

Any help appreciated.

[Ajeh]

If you look how this is done in the currency sidebox it will probably help you out ...

[acetate]

That was no help

...but thanks anyway :)

So I seem to have it working and thought I would post up what I've done in case it's of use to anyone else. I'm no coder so please feel free to correct me and advise if there's any issues.

Objective: to add some currency icons to my header so a customer can change their currency, and also not be redirected off the page they were on.

the file I edited is tpl_header.php. Copy this to your own template directory and edit.

The added code I put just before these lines:

<br class="clearBoth" />
<!--eof-branding display-->

Added this code:

<fieldset id="currencyBox">
<legend style="font-weight: normal;" align="center">Currency</legend>
<form action="<?=$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']?>" method=post>
<input type="image" src="includes/templates/yourtemplate/images/icons/ausflag.gif" alt="Australian Dollars" name="AUD">
<input type="image" src="includes/templates/yourtemplate/images/icons/usaflag.gif" alt="US Dollars" name="USD">
</form>
</fieldset>

<?php
if($_POST["AUD_x"]) {
$_SESSION["currency"]="AUD"; }
elseif($_POST["USD_x"]) {
$_SESSION["currency"]="USD"; }
?>

In my example I only have 2 currencies named AUD and USD. You'll need to alter the code to match the currencies you've created. Also you'll need to alter the <input... lines and change "yourtemplate" to the name of your template folder.

Then add some flag pictures into the includes/templates/yourtemplate/images/icons/ folder and adjust the .gif names accordingly. You can style and position your currency box by adding a #currencyBox section to your stylesheet. Here's mine:

#currencyBox {
border: 1px solid #ff0000;
font-size: 1.1em;
font-weight: normal;
float: right;
margin-right: 70px;
margin-top: 20px;
color: #ff0000;
width: 106px;
}

All comments welcome.

Cheers.