Setting up Paypal IPN with osCommerce for Australian Dollars (AUD)

This post is an old post from my previous blog but I thought it might be still useful to some people so I'll repost it here rather than deleting it.

I have just been setting up an osCommerce website to use Paypal's IPN as the payment method to accept credit card and paypal payments. I downloaded the official osCommerce Paypal IPN module from the contributions site, because the one that comes with 2.2MS2 is out of date.

After downloading this and installing it, I made a test order on the osCommerce store, and when I was directed to Paypal the amount to pay was $0.00 USD. As this is an Australian site, dealing in Australian currency (AUD) only, there were 2 problems. The zero order amount, and the fact that it was in USD.

I eventually tried adding in the USD currency into my osCommerce shop, and tried another test order. This one was more successful, as it showed an amount (albeit in USD) that was ordered. The thing I noted was that the amount shown was using the exchange rate I had set in osCommerce, and not just calculated by Paypal.

So after some more digging I came across the following code in the /catalog/includes/modules/payment/paypal_ipn.php file on lines 261-263.

if (!in_array($my_currency, array('CAD', 'EUR', 'GBP', 'JPY', 'USD'))) {
     $my_currency = 'USD';
}

For some reason the developers of the module (osCommerce team) decided that AUD wasn't a currency supported by Paypal (and maybe it wasn't when they first released it in late 2004), but it definitely is. So a simple hack to the code like this fixed my problem, and now sends the correct amount to Paypal in Australian Dollars.

if (!in_array($my_currency, array('CAD', 'EUR', 'GBP', 'JPY', 'USD', 'AUD'))) {
     $my_currency = 'USD';
}

That's it, your osCommerce store should now be able to accept Australian Dollars with PayPal.