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Changing currency inside shop

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Kasper Jensen
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Posted on 08/09/2011 14:14:50
Hey,

Is it possible to make a kind of dropdown, where the customers of a webshop can choose his/her desired currency?

// Kasper


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Kristian Kirkholt
Posted on 14/09/2011 12:33:31
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Hi Kasper

Not as standard. But this was done with heavy template building and some custom code on www.skovlarsen.dk
Normally you chose languge and are transferred to the correct currency on a specific language layer.
 
Casper Stendal
Posted on 05/01/2012 10:25:04
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Nice solution exactly what we need.

It would be even more fantastic, if you would share the template with the dropdown?  :)

Best regards
 
Casper Stendal
Posted on 05/01/2012 10:50:54
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Should someone else have a solution for this problem, please drop a line...

It no problem to make the dropdown:
<select onchange="document.location='?currencycode=' + this.value;">
    <option value="USD">USD: US Dollar</option>
    <option value="EUR">EUR: EU Euro</option>
    <option value="DKK">DKK: Danke Kroner</option>
</select>

But how to get the current selected currency inside the template? So we can keep the right selection in the dropdown?
 
Casper Stendal
Posted on 05/01/2012 15:43:20
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Working solution:
<select id="selCurrency" onchange="updateCurrency(this.value)">
    <option value="USD">USD: US Dollar</option>
    <option value="EUR">EUR: EU Euro</option>
    <option value="DKK">DKK: Danke Kroner</option>
</select>
<script type="text/javascript">
    var selCurrency = document.getElementById('selCurrency');
    for (var i = 0; i < selCurrency.options.length; i++) {
        if (selCurrency.options[i].value == getCookie('currencycode'))
            selCurrency.options[i].selected = true;
    }

    function updateCurrency(currency) {
        var url = document.location.href.replace(/&currencycode=.{3}/, '').replace(/\?currencycode=.{3}&/, '?').replace(/\?currencycode=.{3}/, '');
        setCookie('currencycode', currency, 14);
        var parm = "?";
        if (url.indexOf('?') >= 0)
            parm = "&";
        document.location = url + parm + 'currencycode=' + currency;
    }

    function getCookie(c_name) {
        var i, x, y, ARRcookies = document.cookie.split(";");
        for (i = 0; i < ARRcookies.length; i++) {
            x = ARRcookies[i].substr(0, ARRcookies[i].indexOf("="));
            y = ARRcookies[i].substr(ARRcookies[i].indexOf("=") + 1);
            x = x.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, "");
            if (x == c_name) {
                return unescape(y);
            }
        }
    }

    function setCookie(c_name, value, exdays) {
        var exdate = new Date();
        exdate.setDate(exdate.getDate() + exdays);
        var c_value = escape(value) + ((exdays == null) ? "" : "; expires=" + exdate.toUTCString());
        document.cookie = c_name + "=" + c_value;
    }
</script>
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