Question

It is very possible that I totally don’t understand the Zend aproach in working with currencies.

What I want to do is to have a Zend_Currency object where the active currency is EURO and the language to be English (the locale of the application is en_GB). Zend_Currency is connected to a locale and if a create a Zend_Currency with an English locale I cannot have EUR.

I’ve also tried this

$this->currency = new Zend_Currency(array('currency' => 'EUR'), "en_GB");

But if I try to

echo $this->currency->getSymbol(); // I get £

And there are no methods for changing the currency.

Answer 1

This worked:

$this->currency = new Zend_Currency('en_GB');
$this->currency->setFormat(array('currency' =>  'EUR', 'name' =>'EUR', 'symbol' => '€'));