Feature Request: Conversion of value via shortcode

+1 Great idea

Hi,

Thanks for the idea – will add it in next update.

Best regards,
Tom

P.S. Regarding “…how this can be done even with PHP…” – I didn’t have time to test it, but hopefully this should work:

echo alg_get_product_price_by_currency( 1.99, alg_get_current_currency_code() );

Please let me know if it’s working.

Best regards,
Tom

Hi again,

We’ve just released v2.4.1, where we’ve added [woocommerce_currency_switcher_convert_price] shortcode.

This can be used in two ways:

1. Calculate price in current (i.e. chosen by user) currency:

[woocommerce_currency_switcher_convert_price price="1.99"]

2. Calculate price in selected currency:

[woocommerce_currency_switcher_convert_price price="1.99" currency="AUD"]

Or if you wish to use PHP:

echo alg_convert_price( array( 'price' => 1.99 ) );

or

echo alg_convert_price( array( 'price' => 1.99, 'currency' => 'AUD' ) );

Please let me know if it’s working correctly.

Best regards,
Tom

Oh my gosh, that’s awesome!!! I just checked back here hoping maybe you’d added this now, and you have. Excellent! I’ll try it out ASAP and let you know the result.

Ok, tested it out. Like a few other plugins I’ve seen, it tries to be helpful by outputting a nice HTML output instead of just a raw number, which is probably suitable for most users, but I’m looking for raw output.

So currently when I do this:
echo alg_convert_price( array( ‘price’ => 1.99 ) );

Instead of outputting just 1.99 (or whatever), it outputs:
<span class=”woocommerce-Price-amount amount”><span class=”woocommerce-Price-currencySymbol”>$</span>1.99</span>

Which causes problems when I’m feeding the output into other functions.

If you could maybe add a version of the same which just outputs the raw converted value that would be perfect! For now I’ll just have to butcher the code a little to get what I want, but an official function would be better hehe ??

• This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by ozzymuppet.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by ozzymuppet.

Update for anyone else looking for similar raw unformatted value…
This file: alg-switcher-functions.php

Replace: “return wc_price( alg_get_product_price_by_currency( $atts[‘price’], $atts[‘currency’] ), array( ‘currency’ => $atts[‘currency’] ) );”

with: “return alg_get_product_price_by_currency_global( $atts[‘price’], $atts[‘currency’] );”

Took me a while to understand why there was no mention of classes/css in your code… then I realised what wc_price was. Clever.

LOVE this plugin. It’s easily the best currency plugin for Woocommerce – I’ve tried them all, some much more expensive and nowhere near as good. The code is very clean, some very smart and useful automated features, but still a very light and fast package. You’ve done a great job with this.

Hi @ozzymuppet,

Thanks for the feedback. No problem – I will add raw price in next plugin update (either as new function, or maybe I’ll add new parameter to existing alg_convert_price() function, so you can choose if you want it raw or with tags). Shouldn’t take too long.

By the way – you can remove all tags at once with PHP’s strip_tags() function (https://php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php), which will leave only the price and currency symbol, something like:

echo strip_tags( alg_convert_price( array( 'price' => 1.99 ) ) );

Then you can remove the currency symbol (and maybe space) and you got a raw number.

P.S. If you like the plugin, please leave us a rating.

Best regards,
Tom

Rating added ??

strip_tags() ! That will come in very handy, thanks man.

Hi,

We’ve just released new v2.5.0. As promised, we’ve added format_price attribute (defaults to yes) to the shortcode and function, so now you can use it something like this:

[woocommerce_currency_switcher_convert_price price="1.99" format_price="no"]

echo alg_convert_price( array( 'price' => 1.99, 'format_price' => 'no' ) );

Best regards,
Tom

Perfect – thank you. I’ll upgrade as soon as it comes through.