Odd dash in email product list after product name

[janoroh]

I can't seem to get rid of an odd dash that is sneaking into the product names in the confirmation emails (1.7.8.4). When an item, for instance, is named "Testartikel 1 Euro", what shows up in the email is "Testartikel 1 Euro -". I assumed it's caused by the email expecting a variant descriptor even though I don't use variants for products and have deactivated the whole variants function. So I removed the variant check in the order_conf_product_list.tpl file, but without any result. It seems to be hardcoded into the name somehow because when I change the line to:

<strong>{$product['name']} test</strong>

it will show "Testartikel 1 Euro auf Lager - test" in the email, so that odd dash is part of the $product['name'] call.

Does anyone know how I can get rid of that? It looks a bit silly if there's a useless dash after each product name in my confirmation emails.

Thank you!

Edited March 17, 2022 by janoroh (see edit history)

[janoroh]

Hm, nobody any ideas? I assume that name is created in a controller, but I don't know which one it could be. 🤔

[JBW]

The product name is getting defined as follows. It seems your product is having an attribute without a attribute name!?

[janoroh]

Ah, thank you so much! I feel like there's a bug somewhere because I've disabled attributes on the Advanced -> Performance page, so I can't even enter any on my product pages.

I just checked if the behavior is different if I turn it on again, but the "-" still shows up. Very odd.

Since I don't use attributes anyway, I've now added an override for PaymentModule.php removing the string marked red in your screenshot and it works correctly now. Still would be interesting to find out what might cause the problem because I guess the isset attributes part should only show something if there actually are attributes. I also checked the database and ps_attribute, ps_product_attribute, ps_product_attribute_combination and the others are all emtpy. Weird.

Edited March 18, 2022 by janoroh (see edit history)