Support for on-the-fly currency conversion

Initial idea to make this work is to create a table in which, for every field, the converted amount in every desired other currency would be stored. This would be updated every X hours through cron. It also implies that no performance degradation should occur.

And how and where would you display this information? For example, in node view? additional columns for views?

Though, it looks like it could be written as a separate module. Say it could work as follows:

- Obtain the list of money fields in the system from where the site admin can configure currency conversions. This could be done on a dedicated module settings panel, or using form_alter to hook into the field settings form.
- Such module would use it's own tables to store field configuration and data.
- Also, it could alter the node view, or even provide the required fields for views.

Either way, I don't have time for this, so I would say won't fix. An alternative approach to do it has been drawn if anyone wants to work on it.

Thoughts?

In addition, here's a possible alternative to offer on-the-fly currency conversions:

#210880: a "Click to convert" addon

The Multi-currency pricelist module might offer what you are looking for or could be used as a starting point.

Thanks.