1. Requirements
2. Installation
3. FEATURES
4. Usage

This is a simple currency management module having: list of all currencies get/update, converter, geoip based currency code getter/setter, currency drop down widget

Requirements ¶

Yii 1.1 or above jquery.js user module

Installation ¶

1. Unzip

2. Copy the webin folder to protected/modules/

3. add

            'application.modules.currencymanager.models.*',
   

   into config/main.php -> 'import'=>array()

4. under config/main/

      'modules'=>array(
   
           'currencymanager',
   
       ),
   

5. import tbl_currency.sql to your database

6. You are ready to go

FEATURES ¶

1. List of all currencies around the world
2. Update all or selected curriencies using google currency converter (requires admin login)
3. Widget for currency dropdown select box (Choosen enabled).
4. Currency converter with respect to USD
5. Set default currency in yii session as your desired currency code or get currency code based on user's geographical location

Usage ¶

To display active and nonzero currency fields as DropDown , simply call "currencymanager.widgets.GetCurrencyDropdown" //it sets Yii::app()->session['currency'] to the desired currency thru ajax post // no furthur coding required //set reloadgrid as true (optional) if you have some gird to reload after changing the currency //or change the view file "_select" of this widget under widgets/views

<?php 
	     $this->widget('currencymanager.widgets.GetCurrencyDropdown'
						//,array(
							//'reloadgrid'=>true //Default False
							//,'filterzeros'=>false //Default true
							//)
				) 
     ?>

To change $(USD) currency to XXX currency simply call

Yii::app()->getModule('currencymanager')->convertcurrency($to,$price); 

$to : (string) to the desired currency format eg: to change to european: "EUR" $price : (numerical) the desired price to be converted

To set the default currency to XXX simply call

Yii::app()->getModule('currencymanager')->setdefaultcurrency($currency_code);

it saves the currency code to yii session. to retrive this value simply call :

Yii::app()->session['currency']

Note: $currencycode is optional. If it not set, it will find the user's ip and the geolocation and hence the currency code

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