woocommerce get_woocommerce_currency_symbol()

distro_dave

I am developing an extension for woocommerce WordPress plugin. I would like to display the currency symbol outside of the loop in a custom function I have the following: function my_function( ) { global $woocommerce; echo get_woocommerce_currency_symbol(); } I am not sure why but this doesn't output the symbol? Am I missing something?

Originally asked by danyo on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Your code should work, which means the issue might be in the database. You can check these 2 functions: get_woocommerce_currency() and get_woocommerce_currency_symbol() from the WooCommerce docs that shows that you are using the functions correct. What is left is for you to start some troubleshooting steps to see what causes the error: What is get_option('woocommerce_currency') returning? If nothing, then you have no currency set and that is why you get nothing from get_woocommerce_currency_symbol(); What happens if you add a currency as a parameter to get_woocommerce_currency_symbol ? it gets displayed? something like echo get_woocommerce_currency_symbol("USD"); You should add to your...

Full answer by jnhghy - Alexandru Jantea: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/18372673 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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