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Is there any way to remove the commas from the checkbox and multiselect custom field output?

I’m using a checkbox list to select words I want to add as class names on an HTML element.

For instance, if I check web and print, my element will have class=“web print”.  Right now it is class=“web, print”.

How about using one of the available find and replace plugins found on Devot-ee.com? Would that work for you?

That seems like overkill.  I may just have to implement my custom field differently somehow.  It’s kind of odd that EE is outputting a comma.  If they didn’t, I could choose to output the comma myself, so I don’t really see why EE does it.  Really limits usage and flexibility.

I don’t think a plugin is overkill at all, although as little as one line of PHP could accomplish the same thing, of course… Moving to the CodeShare Corner.

Is there any way to remove the commas from the checkbox and multiselect custom field output?

I’m using a checkbox list to select words I want to add as class names on an HTML element.

For instance, if I check web and print, my element will have class=“web print”.  Right now it is class=“web, print”.

Hi, you don’t need any additional components installing.

First of all, alter the template preferences and enable PHP.

Then, add the following to the top of the template:

<?php

$classes = '{custom_field_name}'; // assigning the custom field value to a PHP variable

$classes = str_replace(",", "", $classes); // replacing the commas with nothing from the classes variable

?>

Be sure to change {custom_field_name} for the name of your actual custom field name.

Then, add the following to your HTML:

<?php echo $classes; ?>

That should work.

If not, come back and let me know what happened (or didn’t happen, as the case may be).

Hi Wayne,

I know this is an old post, but perhaps this quick tip may be of use to someone…

To get this to work rather than adding the first PHP block to the top of the page I had to put it within the channel entries tag, and then it worked perfectly.

Thanks.