https://www.machform.com/forums/ MachForm Community Forums Topic: Remove dash from checkbox field in email en Mon, 04 May 2026 02:29:34 +0000 https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/remove-dash-from-checkbox-field-in-email#post-10541 Sat, 25 Sep 2010 02:19:18 +0000 Willy 10541@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Hi Yunair,</p> <p>My helper-functions.php is a clean file without any modifications.</p> <p>If I make the modification suggested the dash doesn´t disappear.</p> <p>I believe the dash comes from entry-functions.php, from line 370,<br /> <pre><code>$checkbox_content .= &#39;- &#39;.$option_label.&#39;&#39;;</code></pre> <p>If I remove that dash the dash doesn´t show in the email, without modifying anything else.</p> <p>I don´t know if removing that dash will affect anything else except for the email checkbox results.</p> <p>What do you think?</p> <p>Greetings. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/remove-dash-from-checkbox-field-in-email#post-10539 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:52:50 +0000 yuniar 10539@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Willy,</p> <p>Can you send us your modified file please? We'll check it. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/remove-dash-from-checkbox-field-in-email#post-10537 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:11:14 +0000 Willy 10537@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>I am interested in achieving the same thing and have been trying to use the code as described and I also tried some additional changes but the dash won't disappear.</p> <p>The additional changes I made were in the code that appears on lines 372 - 386 in helper-functions.php,</p> <pre><code>if($data[&#39;element_type&#39;] == &#39;textarea&#39;){ $email_body .= &quot;&lt;b&gt;{$data[&#39;label&#39;]}&lt;/b&gt; &quot;.nl2br($data[&#39;value&#39;]).&quot;\n&quot;; }elseif ($data[&#39;element_type&#39;] == &#39;checkbox&#39; || $data[&#39;element_type&#39;] == &#39;address&#39;){ $email_body .= &quot;&lt;b&gt;{$data[&#39;label&#39;]}&lt;/b&gt; &quot;.$data[&#39;value&#39;].&quot;\n&quot;; }elseif ($data[&#39;element_type&#39;] == &#39;file&#39;){ if($target_is_admin === false){ $data[&#39;value&#39;] = strip_tags($data[&#39;value&#39;]); $email_body .= &quot;&lt;b&gt;{$data[&#39;label&#39;]}&lt;/b&gt; - {$data[&#39;value&#39;]} \n&quot;; }else{ $data[&#39;value&#39;] = strip_tags($data[&#39;value&#39;],&#39;&lt;a&gt;&#39;); $email_body .= &quot;&lt;b&gt;{$data[&#39;label&#39;]}&lt;/b&gt; &quot;.$data[&#39;value&#39;].&quot;\n&quot;; } }else{ $email_body .= &quot;&lt;b&gt;{$data[&#39;label&#39;]}&lt;/b&gt; - {$data[&#39;value&#39;]} \n&quot;; }</code></pre> <p>Any suggestions?</p> <p>Greetings </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/remove-dash-from-checkbox-field-in-email#post-10523 Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:00:43 +0000 discosteve 10523@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Thanks redityo. The modified code doesn't seem to be working still. I'll send you an email with my helper-functions.php file now. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/remove-dash-from-checkbox-field-in-email#post-10513 Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:38:48 +0000 redityo 10513@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>The method in that link should work. Try to change these code for that post</p> <pre><code>if($data[&#39;element_type&#39;] == &#39;textarea&#39;){ $template_values[$i] = nl2br($data[&#39;value&#39;]); } elseif ($data[&#39;element_type&#39;] == &#39;checkbox&#39; &#38;&#38; $form_id == &#39;16&#39; &#38;&#38; $data[&#39;element_id&#39;] == &#39;1&#39; ) { $template_values[$i] = str_replace(&#39;-&#39;,&#39; &#39;,$data[&#39;value&#39;]); }elseif ($data[&#39;element_type&#39;] == &#39;file&#39;){ if($target_is_admin === false){ $template_values[$i] = strip_tags($data[&#39;value&#39;]); }else{ $template_values[$i] = strip_tags($data[&#39;value&#39;],&#39;&lt;a&gt;&#39;); } }else{ $template_values[$i] = $data[&#39;value&#39;]; }</code></pre> <p>to</p> <pre><code>if($data[&#39;element_type&#39;] == &#39;textarea&#39;){ $template_values[$i] = nl2br($data[&#39;value&#39;]); } elseif ($data[&#39;element_type&#39;] == &#39;checkbox&#39; ) { $template_values[$i] = str_replace(&#39;-&#39;,&#39; &#39;,$data[&#39;value&#39;]); }elseif ($data[&#39;element_type&#39;] == &#39;file&#39;){ if($target_is_admin === false){ $template_values[$i] = strip_tags($data[&#39;value&#39;]); }else{ $template_values[$i] = strip_tags($data[&#39;value&#39;],&#39;&lt;a&gt;&#39;); } }else{ $template_values[$i] = $data[&#39;value&#39;]; }</code></pre> <p>That would make the customization applied to all check box field type.<br /> if it still not work, you can send me your "helper-functions.php" file to :</p> <p>customer.service[at]appnitro.com</p> <p>I will help you to check it </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/remove-dash-from-checkbox-field-in-email#post-10509 Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:57:37 +0000 discosteve 10509@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>I have a number of checkbox fields on several different forms. When the form entries are emailed the checkbox fields include a dash ("-") in front of the selection. So if the user selected Option 1 in the checkbox field, it comes through on the email as "- Option 1".</p> <p>Is there a way to remove this dash on the email? I tried the solution presented here - <a href="http://www.appnitro.com/forums/topic/-in-subject-line?replies=7," rel="nofollow">http://www.appnitro.com/forums/topic/-in-subject-line?replies=7,</a> but that doesn't seem to do anything. I'd like to not have to specify every field and element that I want to remove the dash for because it's a really long list.</p> <p>Thanks! </p>