Currencies within the view
- Posted by thomasw at 22:12:52 // //
- Announcements, Currency
Today the last missing sheep of my new Zend_Currency implementation has been moved to core.
It’s the view helper for currencies which was missing.
Zend_View_Helper_Currency
Together with the new Zend_Currency implementation it simplifies rendering for all using currencies within their application. Let’s take a short look into an working example…
// Bootstrap
$currency = new Zend_Currency(array('value' => 100, 'locale' => 'fr_FR'));
Zend_Registry::set('Zend_Currency', $currency);
We prepared our currency to be used application wide.
Now the view:
// View $this->currency();
This would output “100,00 €” (or something related).
Really simple, isn’t it ?
Of course this would not work when you have multiple currencies which you are working with.
Then you must work with other registry keys and give the wished instance.
// Model
$instance_1 = new Zend_Currency(array('value' => 100, 'locale' => 'fr_FR'));
$instance_2 = new Zend_Currency(array('value' => 500, 'locale' => 'en_US'));
And in the view:
// View $this->currency($instance_1); $this->currency($instance_2);
Please look into the manual for further informations.
There’s nothing more to say than enjoy my new currency implementation for Zend Framework. ;-)
Greetings
Thomas Weidner
I18N Team Leader, Zend Framework
Zend Framework Advisory Board Member
Zend Certified Engineer for Zend Framework