Thomas Weidner’s Blog: Working with currencies

Zend_Currency component has been completely rewritten in Zend Framework 1.10. Thomas Weidner, author of new implementation, writes on his blog about new Zend_Currency features and gives few practical examples of component’s usage.

Zend_Currency is now able not only to render a currency but you can also calculate currency values with it. Several methods have been added to support you by this task. (…) As mentioned before Zend_Currency adds a new feature exchanging. This means that it allows to use Exchange Services. The idea behind is that there are several available online exchange services which can convert a currency into another. By using such a service Zend_Currency is able to convert currencies when needed.

Read the full story and see how new Zend_Currency component can help you in development of financial, e-commerce and similar applications.