One of our clients source their products from the UK and Japan. They need to enter product prices in YEN for 30% of their products and have all prices displayed in GBP. I'm looking for an outline of how to achieve this. Is it even possible?
Wed, 02/13/2008 - 09:13
Re: How to implement this currency module
I'd also like to see a solution...
I was thinking that maybe one could make a new content type, and create a content template that takes the GBP price and manipulates the value into YEN by using PHP.
Obviously, you wouldn't see the YEN value in the checkout pages, but it's a start...
Re: Re: How to implement this currency module
I think what psynaptic means is to have 2 input fields for price, one in GBP and one in YEN, but have all displaying in GBP
biggest problem I think is getting an up-to date currency conversion and u'd have to decide when to perform this conversion, at input or at the displaying of a page
I think in psynaptic's case, he'd want the conversion to happen at input and only have GBP values stored in his database
Re: Re: Re: How to implement this currency module
This has been put on the back burner for now as we have other important stuff to get done for this client.
I would think the module should calculate conversions on display so that prices can be input in YEN (which pretty much stays the same) and then the GBP price (which could change on a daily basis) would be calculated to keep prices current.
I will let you know, in this thread, when we schedule this in for completion and make the module available to the community.