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I had a strange issue with the contribution email receipt. Under the billing name and address section, the value for the billing name was showing up as one of my custom field names+value. In other words, rather than showing my name when I completed the form, it showed "customlabel: customvalue". The actual custom field it picked up seemed rather random, though it was consistent.

The variable for the billing name is $name -- which is later used for the custom field loop in the template, and is also used in various other places, so I suspect somewhere along the line there a miss-assignment or conflict. What's strange is that in only showed up on the email, not on the confirmation or thank you screens.

Anyway, I fixed it by assigning a new variable (billingname) with duplicate value for $name to CRM/Contribute/Form/ContributionBase.php, around lines 357-358. I then use that in the template instead of $name and it works fine. I left the $name variable as it's used in several places that still work correctly.

Just throwing it out there in case someone else runs into the problem.