How do I convert $ to ? in Jon Lebensold's shopping cart tutorial?

[slam38]

Hi everyone,

 

I am working from Jon Lebensold's shopping cart tutorial, which is great by the way, and I'm very new to PHP.

 

This might seem like a stupid question, but in the video Jon is working with the currency dollars ($). I want to use pounds (?).

 

How do I convert $ to ?? And what is the currency_code for ? for PayPal?

 

I did attempt to change the $$amount to this $?amount in the table output on the templates page, but nothing happened.

 

I also tried to put ? in the XML catalog but in the browser a greek letter A was displayed in front of the ?.

 

Thanks for your time.

Edited October 16, 2009 by slam38

[Wickham]

This is just a guess, but might be worth a try.

 

Special characters like ? are often unrecognised and you have to use the character code in html which is £ for ? but although this will work in text I'm not sure if it will affect the PHP processing.

 

I also believe that the PHP encoding needs to be utf-8 and not iso-8859-1.

 

I think one solution is not to use ? in a variable like $?amount just use $amount and put the ? sign as £ in a text string like

$current_prices = array("Bed"=>"£200.00",

"Chair"=>"£100.30", "Table"=>"£450.00");

 

as this doesn't work:-

 

$current_prices_in_£ = array("Bed"=>"£200.00",

"Chair"=>"£100.30", "Table"=>"£450.00");

Edited October 16, 2009 by Wickham

[slam38]

Thanks Wickam,

 

for getting back to me, I'll give it a try.