Post edited 1:10 pm - March 5, 2010 by Market Admin

Ok, here's a set of step by step instructions for changing the currency in which your website operates in.

Open single.php (located within your Market theme folder), find the following line:

<span class="price"><strong>$</strong><?php echo $price; ?></span>

 Change the dollar sign between the <strong> and </strong> tags to the Unicode number of your currency symbol.  (eg. British pound (£) = &#163;  Euro (€) = &#8364; ).  Just putting in the symbol itself doesn't always work, so using the Unicode number (eg. "&#163;" or "&#8364;" ) is more dependable.  After you insert the Unicode number for British pound, it should look like:

 <span class="price"><strong>&#163;</strong><?php echo $price; ?></span>

(You can find a reference guide of various currency Unicode numbers here:  http://www.xe.com/symbols.php

Next, find the following line: 

<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD">

Change "USD" to "GBP".  Market version 3 contains this line two separate times, so make sure to change both.  ("GBP" is the Paypal abbreviation for British Pounds.  I believe "EUR" is the abbreviation for Euro.  If you want currency in a different language, make sure you use the correct Paypal abbreviation which you can find within the Paypal multiple currencies documentation.)

So, to recap -- you will change two different lines so that they now look like this:

<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="GBP">

(This is assuming that you are changing to "British pounds" -- GBP. Insert your own currency code.)

Next, find the following line.

<input type="hidden" name="lc" value="US">

Replace it with the 2 letter Paypal Country Code (You'll find it listed here).  Enter "GB" for Britsih pounds, to make it look like this:

<input type="hidden" name="lc" value="GB">

Starting with Market version 3, there are also two separate instances of this line, so make sure to change both.

Save the file.

Next open up cart.php.  This is located within the "ajCart" sub-folder (wp-contentthemesmk3ajCart).

Do a search for the following line:

$Shipping = 'Shipping: $'.$Shipping;

Change the dollar sign WITHIN the single quotes to the Unicode value for British pounds, (or Euro, etc.) as you did above in step #1.  It should look like the following:

$Shipping = 'Shipping: &#163;'.$Shipping;

Finally find the following segment of code:

<td>$'.(float)($crtAmount[$item] * $crtQuantity[$item]).'</td>

Replace the first dollar sign immediately after the <td> with the same Unicode British pound symbol, euro symbol, or whatever currency you're using.  It should look like this:

<td>&#163;'.(float)($crtAmount[$item] * $crtQuantity[$item]).'</td>

Save the file.

Next, open up the file archive.php (not to be confused with archives.php with an "s")

Search for the line:

<div class="price"><strong>$</strong><?php echo $price; ?></div>

Replace the dollar sign between the <strong> tags with the same unicode number you've been working with.  It should look like this when you're done.

<div class="price"><strong>&#163;</strong><?php echo $price; ?></div>

Save the file.

Next, open up the file frontdoor.php and find the line:

<div class="price"><strong>$</strong><?php echo $price; ?></div>

Replace the dollar sign between the <strong> tags with the same unicode number you've been working with.  It should look like this when you're done.

<div class="price"><strong>&#163</strong><?php echo $price; ?></div>

Save the file.

Next, open up the search results file named search.php and find the line:

<div class="price"><strong>$</strong><?php echo $price; ?></div>

Again, change the dollar sign with your unicode number for your desired currency like you did in the previous step.  (replace between the <strong> and </strong> tags.

Save the file.

Lastly, open the file cart_bottom.php.  This is located within the "ajCart" sub-folder (wp-contentthemesmk3ajCart).

Immediately after this line:

<input type="hidden" name="upload" value="1" />

Add the following line:

<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="GBP">

(Replace "GBP" with "EUR" or whatever currency code you need.)

So, for British pounds, your resulting code should look something like this:

Save the file.

**** UPDATE ****

If you're using Market version 3.3 or later, it's been modified a little from before so there are a few more changes you'll need to make.  In addition to the steps above, follow these steps as well.

Open up the file "single.php" again for editing.

Scroll down to around line 159 and find the following lines:

Within each of these three lines is are 5 dollar signs ($).  THE FOURTH ONE in each line needs to be replaced with your currency unicode number.   -- The ones in ">Standard ($" , ">Priority ($" , and ">International ($"  .

So, for example, if you were changing to British pounds, the modified code would look like this:

In a similar fashion, if you scroll down to around line 250, you will see another three lines like this:

Each of these lines contains 9 dollar signs.  YOU NEED TO CHANGE THE 8th ONE to your currency unicode number.  

If you were changing to British pounds, the code would look like the following:

Save the file.

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That should do it.

Make sure you update all files on your website to reflect these changes.

Yes, in the next version I'd like to make the currency related stuff changeable within the Product Manager admin tool.   I'm actually talking with our developers right now about it.

The code modification above is the only option as of now.  It will guide you through the process of changing currencies.

Quickly selecting different currencies is a feature that a coder is working on right now for a future release.  It will be able to be set within the product manager.

This particular feature isn't included within the release that's coming out in a day or so, but it's in the next iteration.

Yes...  Just follow the instructions in post #1 above.  The value for Canadian dollars is "CAD".

Actually, with the latest version of Market -- you just need to go to the "Market Theme" settings tab in your Wordpress administration area.

Now there's a dropdown box where you can simply choose it from a list. 

No more coding required.

Do you have Paypal support for the Rand?

I'm looking at the Paypal developer area, and they don't list support for your currency yet.

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/sell/mc/mc_intro-outside

There is a section in the "functions.php" file now that handles that.

If you add an option to the dropdown box with the correct "value", then it may work for you.

Here's the encoded format:

ZAR/&#82;

becomes:

ZAR%2F%26%2382%3B

This would be the value you'd place.

Here are two pages you can use for the symbol codes and the encoding:

symbols:

http://www.xe.com/symbols.php

decoding:

http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/