The Forex Plugin

Forex is part of the cornershop root. It allows the Managing Editor of a website to create and maintain a table of exchange rates. Its use is entirely optional, the cornershop plugin as shipped does not make reference to forex macros or scripts.

Each entry in the table is indexed by its country code , which is meant to suggest a 2 character letter code, such as US, EU, etc. There is no practical limit on the number of currencies supported.

3 RPC entry points are supported, see Forex RPChandlers.

Values in the table of a website, are accessed using 2 macros.

currencyConvert(amount, toCurrency, fromCurrency = "NZ")

This macro returns the product of the amount and the exchange rate for conversion between fromCurrency and toCurrency as a number - it does the conversion.

currencyConvertString(amount, toCurrency, fromCurrency = "NZ")

This macro returns the product of the amount and the exchange rate for conversion between fromCurrency and toCurrency as a string with the formatting and currency symbol defined on the configuration page.