{"id":65930,"date":"2024-12-08T03:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=65930"},"modified":"2024-12-08T05:47:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T19:47:53","slug":"php-intl-class-currency-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/php-intl-class-currency-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP Intl Class Currency Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PHP Intl Class Currency Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

We’re back with the PHP intl<\/a> “Internationalization”<\/font> class, today, last talked about with the recent PHP Intl Class Datetime Keyboard Events Tutorial<\/a>, this time discussing …<\/p>\n

\nCurrency Internationalization\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

… topics. Again, we found the Locale data item, as with Datetimes, the main data item of interest. But, any one Country can use more than one Currency (defined by an ISO-4217 3 letter Currency Code<\/a>) in this new PHP Intl using Currency web application<\/a> we’ve started developing today, and on a Locale selection we choose the first such one, and leave it open to the user to be able to type in their own ISO-4217 three letter Currency Code, as required.<\/p>\n

We got great help from https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/76825595\/php-format-currency-issue<\/a> with codeline ideas, such as …<\/p>\n

<?php
\n
\n $formatter = new NumberFormatter(urldecode($_GET['locale']), NumberFormatter::CURRENCY);
\n if (isset($_GET['amount'])) {
\n echo \"<p id=pdfmt>\" . $formatter->formatCurrency(urldecode($_GET['amount']), urldecode($_GET['currency'])) . \"<\/p><br>\";
\n } else {
\n echo \"<p id=pdfmt>\" . $formatter->formatCurrency(76543.210, urldecode($_GET['currency'])) . \"<\/p><br>\";
\n }
\n<\/code>
\n?><\/p>\n

The work of Datetimes, ahead of all this, has meant it is easier to get “further down the track” for today’s “proof of concept” i_cur_eg.php<\/a> PHP code start, that has keyboard event and dropdown logics all in there, and which you can try below …<\/p>\n