All Purpose Currency Converter

Description

Convert any currency to allowed PayPal currencies for any kind of e-commerce system scenarios FEATURES Convert any currency to allowed PayPal currencies for any kind of e-commerce system scenarios Due to the design of the plugin it virtually supports any e-commerce solution that is available for WordPress Currently it offers four distinct shortcodes that can be used for custom integration Exchangerate exr 0 00008 This shortcode retrieves the exchange rate Usage in PHP do_shortcode exr Currency couple cc IDR USD This shortcode retrieves the exchange rate currencies Usage in PHP do_shortcode cc Tource currency ISO code sc IDR This shortcode retrieves the source currency ISO code Usage in PHP do_shortcode sc Target currency ISO code tc USD This shortcode retrieves the target currency ISO code Usage in PHP do_shortcode tc Automatically update the currency exchange rate between your shop currency and the desired PayPal currency with WP-crontrol or any other cron plugin your hosting servers cron job or a 3rd party cron job service Actual Currency Exchange Rates will be retrieved from Open Exchange Rates API YAHOO Finance or European Central Bank Sends notification email to the admin s email address when the exchange rate has been updated Logs the actions into a log file Tool-tip help on every item Translation Ready Easy to Setup Gives warning for unsupported php ini settings MANDATORY SETTINGS Find the settings page Exchange Rates in WordPress settings menu Select your exchangerate provider Yahoo will do for most purposes Optionaly register a valid API ID and activate it with the radio button or use Yahoo Finance or European Central Bank as your exchange rate provider First time only Set your source currency ISO code and select your target currency After saving this settings the current exchangerate will be retrieved Accept the suggested exchange rate shown in the button Save settings OPTIONAL SETTINGS AUTOMATIC EXR UPDATES For automatic updates you have three options One option is to use a suitable Cron-Job plugin like WP-Crontrol and register the hook ppcc_cexr_update for your desired update frequency Another option is to call the given AJAX url http yourdomain com wp-admin admin-ajax php action ppcc ppcc_function cexr_update from your hosting servers cron job or an online cron job service like EASYCRON COM for a hassle free solution This ensures an accurate timing for the upates LOG EMAIL NOTIFICATION If the checkbox log is checked an email notification will be sent to the admin s email address every time the exchange rate is updated with date time and exchange rate value Furthermore the log file will be populated with every action the plugin does The log file can be found and viewed in the indicated location while using your FTP client For additional convenience you can open the log-file in a pop up window To make this work add Allow from your servers ID will be indicated in the plugin to the htaccess file inside plugins woocommerce logs How can I integrate this As shown on the backend there are several shortcodes that can be used both in PHP or on the front end In General one needs to figure out the PayPal IPN checkout process and total calculation in a specific plugin For example Car rental System 4 3 has the IPN calculation in file display-step5-booking-process php Beginning with line 172 one can see how the integration with APCC can be realized objPayPal- addField currency_code objCore- getConfig currency_code targetcurrency do_shortcode tc objPayPal- addField currency_code targetcurrency get the target currency objPayPal- addField amount number_format floatval priceSummary overall total_pay_now 2 Summary priceSummary overall total_pay_now do_shortcode exr do the conversion objPayPal- addField amount number_format floatval Summary 2