Treasury Block Currency Symbol Problem

New Member Joined: Jan 07, 2007 Posts: 22

Hey guys,

Probably being retard, but the currency symbol on our Donation block is showing as a '?' in a diamond rather than '£'. I downloaded the nuketreasury2006 block from here and uploaded the UK version.

I thought it may be a theme related issue as we are using a custom theme from uberthemes, but it also occurs on the standard themes too.

Anyone have any ideas.

Gandlers
http://www.armouredfarmers.co.uk

registered · Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 11:09 am

I did a "view source" on your page and there is indeed a ? coming out. Is it possible you have to go into the nuke treasury configuration and choose what currency symbol you want first?

Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 1:33 pm

there isnt an option for the currency symbol.

There were two folders in the downlaod, UK and US. I have uploaded the UK files and checked the PHP and there are £ symbols where they should be, but the d*** ? appears instead. Not being a web guru im a little out of my depth....

G

Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 1:42 pm

Where did you download this? I found only NukeTreasury1.1 here in the downloads and it doesn't have a UK block.

If I could see the block code I might be able to help. If the pound symbol is just sitting in some string in the block, have you tried replacing it with the entity £ ?

Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 2:44 pm

I downloaded it from this very site....

http://www.ravenphpscripts.com/viewdownloaddetails-11-233.html

there are 2 folders, UK and US with blocks, admin, modules folders. So I used the UK, there are a few places where there is reference to the £ symbol in the donatometer block and in the donations module. They appear to be exactly the same in the US version but with the $ sign instead like below:

Code:




$DM_GOAL = sprintf('£%.02f', $row_Recordset2['value']);

Not sure what you mean about the &pound entity; it's all dutch to me....lol.
Thanks for all your help gremmie.

G

Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 3:09 pm

Thanks for the link.

I dunno, try this. In the block-Donat_o_Meter.php file, everywhere you see a £, replace it with £

If you don't want to attempt this, PM me your email and I'll send you a file with the changes to try.

Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 3:27 pm

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

well, it changed the output, but this is a cut and paste of what happened

Code:




September´s Goal:     &pound100.00


Due Date:    Sep 30


Amount in:    &pound80.00


Balance:    &pound76.88


Left to go:    &pound23.12

so it kind of worked, it got rid of the ? in the diamond anyway....lol

So i returned it to how it was and this is what we get:

Code:




September´s Goal:     �100.00


Due Date:    Sep 30


Amount in:    �80.00


Balance:    �76.88


Left to go:    �23.12

there is use of the £ symbol elsewhere but it is used with the concat command and has a \ after it, not sure what this means, but might it be that the £ and dollar are getting confused and needs some sort of delimiting character???

Code:




$query_Recordset3 .= 'CONCAT(\'£\',SUM(mc_gross)) AS amt ';

cheers

G

Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 3:37 pm

You have to replace it with £

Notice the trailing semicolon. Try that.

As an aside, here is a list of HTML entities:

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp

I suspect your pound symbol isn't allowed in the character set in your DOCTYPE or something, so you should use an entity instead.

Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 3:40 pm

And replace it everywhere, even in the CONCAT SQL statement (there are 2 such statements I think).

Here is an example of how to do one of them:

Code:




$query_Recordset3 .= 'CONCAT(\'&pound;\',SUM(mc_gross)) AS amt ';

Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 12:41 am

Gremmie...

you sir are a genius!!!

Thank you so much, I was a little out of my depth to say the least, fumbling round in the dark on my own would have yielded negative results.
Now if only I actually understood the change I had make and what this DOCTYPE wizardry you speak of is all about.

Still, they say ignorance is bliss!!!

Thanks once again

G

Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 6:59 am

Well I'm not sure I understand it either, LOL. Something to do with RavenNuke switching to XHTML probably, and the character set we picked for the document. I think XHMTL is more strict about these things. I'll research it a bit more "in my spare time". Smile