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Change the VirtueMart Currency Symbols for Multi-Currency

Joomla 1.5
VirtueMart 1.1

The VirtueMart default currency symbol is configured in the Admin-->Store-->Edit Store-->Currency Display Style but in a multi-currency Shop you just have the default currency symbols like EUR and USD for the other currencies.
I found this hack to solve this in the VirtueMart forums.

Change the default VirtueMart Currency Symbols for Multi-Currency

Change the default VirtueMart Currency Symbols for Multi-Currency

Open the file administrator/components/com_virtuemart/classes/currency/class_currency_display.php and go to around line 122. It is the getFullValue function and looks like this..

 
function getFullValue($nb, $decimals='', $symbol = '') {
    global $vendor_currency;
    $res = "";
    if( $symbol != ''  ) {
      $old_symbol = $this->symbol;
      $this->symbol = $symbol;
    }
 
    // Currency symbol position

We need to add a new function called resetSymbol and call it after the getFullValue.
So change the code to look like...

 
  //Change currency symbol
 
  function resetSymbol()
  {
           switch($GLOBALS['product_currency'])
          {
                  case 'USD': $this->symbol='$';break;
                  case 'EUR': $this->symbol='&euro; ';break;
                  case 'GBP': $this->symbol='&pound; ';break;
 
          }
  }
  function getFullValue($nb, $decimals='', $symbol = '') {
    global $vendor_currency;
    $res = "";
    if( $symbol != ''  ) {
      $old_symbol = $this->symbol;
      $this->symbol = $symbol;
    }
 
   $this->resetSymbol(); //Call the change currency symbol function
    // Currency symbol position

You can add further cases for further currencies. Thanks to Erik P for this code.
Looks much better!

Changed VirtueMart Currency Symbols for Multi-Currency

Changed VirtueMart Currency Symbols for Multi-Currency

Last Updated on Thursday, 03 December 2009 09:49

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