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Magento move currency symbol out of span for microformats

I am working on Magento 1.7.0.2 and in 

app\design\frontend\default\default\template\catalog\product\price.phtml

on line 201 (ish) is

 <?php echo $_coreHelper->currency($_price, true, true) ?>

Which produces the code:

<span class="price">£100.00</span>

Because the currency symbol is in the span, it gets an error in microformats. So I want the price to look the same but take the currency symbol out of the span so it will look like:

£<span class="price">100.00</span>

How would I do that? What is $_coreHelper->currency($_price, true, true) doing?

Solution

  • What is $_coreHelper->currency($_price, true, true) doing ?

    /**
 * Convert and format price value for current application store
 *
 * @param   float $value
 * @param   bool $format
 * @param   bool $includeContainer
 * @return  mixed
 */
public static function currency($value, $format = true, $includeContainer = true)

    i.e add currency symbol and enclose it into <span class="price"><span> so if you would use $_coreHelper->currency($_price, true, false) you would get the same price without <span class="price">

    If you need to use £<span class="price">100.00</span>

     <?php echo Mage::app()->getLocale()->currency(Mage::app()->getStore()->getCurrentCurrencyCode())->getSymbol(); ?>
<span class="price"><?php echo $price ?></span>

    <?php echo $_price ?> - is not a final version of your code, you need to format it but without currency symbol, you can read it on Magento SE topic - how to get price without currency symbol

    Smth like

    Mage::getModel('directory/currency')->format(
    $product->getFinalPrice(), 
    array('display'=>Zend_Currency::NO_SYMBOL), 
    false
);