Paypal checkout / Order summary has visible code from custom field

HTML is not supported in names passed to paypal. In general, html in titles is not recommended at all.

Do both paypal methods do the same thing? It would be possible to strip tags, but not strip content – it wouldn’t know where to break up the string.

Hi Mike,

Yes, it’s appearing in regular and express.

It would already be good to strip the html.

If just html is stripped would it appear as product name _space_product author?

If so, that might still look messy and confusing.

It seem like it might be a better idea to just pull in the product name…

How can I remove the html and custom field from exporting to Paypal?

Thanks!

I found a helpful old post that gets me half way there. This code removed all html leaving me with product name and custom field without a space between them.

How do I remove the custom field as well?

add_filter( ‘woocommerce_paypal_args’, ‘custom_woocommerce_paypal_args’ );
function custom_woocommerce_paypal_args( $args ) {
foreach ( $args as $key => $arg ) {
if ( strstr( $key, ‘^item_name_’ ) ) {
$args[ $key ] = strip_tags( $arg );
}
}
return $args;
}

Thats the correct approach. Why can you not add the space in the product name itself before the tag?

I could but I have hundreds of products….
This is the code that put the subtitle with the product name.
How can I put an exception to just not include subtitle into the paypal process?

function kia_subtitle_for_woocommerce_products( $title, $product ){
if( function_exists( ‘get_the_subtitle’ ) && $subtitle = get_the_subtitle( $product->id ) ){
$title .= ‘<div class=”subtitlecart”>’ . $subtitle . ‘</div>’;
}
return $title;
}
add_filter( ‘woocommerce_product_title’, ‘kia_subtitle_for_woocommerce_products’, 10, 2 );

You could add the space to that code no?

I tried that, but doesn’t look good.

Tried separating with a dash, but then that will also appears in the cart, which I don’t want.

Based on the code I pasted above, is there a line of code that will prevent the subtitle script from not running on the checkout process?

Thanks.

What does not look good?

I mean changing:

$title .= '<div class="subtitlecart">' . $subtitle . '</div>';

to:

$title .= ' <div class="subtitlecart">' . $subtitle . '</div>';

Thanks Mike.
Thats exactly what I tried.

It did put a space between the product and subtitle and its better than the alternative but would rather just remove subtitle altogether.
Can this be done from the code I pasted earlier?
Thank you.

You could make do something like this:

if( function_exists( 'get_the_subtitle' ) && ( $subtitle = get_the_subtitle( $product->id ) ) $$ ! defined( 'WOOCOMMERCE_CHECKOUT' )  ){

I get the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘$’ in …/wp-content/themes/x-child/functions.php on line 293

function kia_subtitle_for_woocommerce_products( $title, $product ){

[line293] if( function_exists( ‘get_the_subtitle’ ) && ( $subtitle = get_the_subtitle( $product->id ) ) $$ ! defined( ‘WOOCOMMERCE_CHECKOUT’ ) ){
$title.= ‘<div class=”subtitlecart”> | ‘ . $subtitle . ‘</div>’;
}
return $title;
}
add_filter( ‘woocommerce_product_title’, ‘kia_subtitle_for_woocommerce_products’, 10, 2 );

if( function_exists( ‘get_the_subtitle’ ) && ( $subtitle = get_the_subtitle( $product->id ) ) $$ ! defined( ‘WOOCOMMERCE_CHECKOUT’ ) ){

Sorry typo, $$ to &&

Brilliant. That did it!
Thanks for the speedy reply and help!

Hi Mike,
I updated the paypal express extension and now the darn html and custom fields are back. They do not appear in regular checkout.

Would you know how to tweak the code to remove html and custom fields on paypal express checkout page?

Thanks.