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Is there any way to change it so phone # is not a required field?

Thanks,

JJ

I’m also interested in this topic; i’ve searched through the Checkout code but nothing found..

Greetings
comdc

BUMP

Me too....

Anyone?

To do this comment out this section (as shown)

at line 321-323 of app/code/core/mage/customer/model/address/abstract.php
duplicate the file and folder structure in your app/local folders to preserve changes.

Then you need to remove the visual settings..
Edit app/design/frontend/"My Theme"/"My Theme"/template/checkout/onepage/billing.phtml

find these lines and remove <span class="required">*</span> from the telephone section and the required-entry input-text from the class selector as shown above.

You should also make the same changes in app/design/frontend/"My Theme"/"My Theme"/template/customer/address/edit.phtml so that it also works when a registered customer edits their address.
Good luck
Tom.

Awesome thanks Tom I’ll give that a go.

This Required Telephone matter has been reported as Bug Issue #6428.

Worked a treat.

PLEASE NOTE

You will also need to make the change to your shipping.phtml page

Edit app/design/frontend/"My Theme"/"My Theme"/template/checkout/onepage/shipping.phtml

thanks for the hint.
I did the changes above, but now when I click to send the form, the phone number field is marked as required again.
Did I forgot something to modify (abstract.php, billing.phtml, edit.phtml)?

Is there still no way to make telephone optional using the admin, instead of editing the files?  Perhaps in a newer version of magento? I’m still using version 1.1.6.

No, no way.

Right, no admin option to do that yet.

But you can avoid editing the core files and just edit the phtml theme files.  In billing.phtml (above) for example, from the telephone <input...> tag, just remove the “required-entry” class (change class="required-entry input-text” to class="input-text").  Voila!  Not required.

kara - 26 March 2009 12:26 PM

Right, no admin option to do that yet.

But you can avoid editing the core files and just edit the phtml theme files.  In billing.phtml (above) for example, from the telephone <input...> tag, just remove the “required-entry” class (change class="required-entry input-text” to class="input-text").  Voila!  Not required.

This will absolutely not work.

gotbonsai has given the right way to do it for now (look a few entries up), stick with this solution.

got-bonsai - 22 November 2008 02:40 PM

To do this comment out this section (as shown)

/*if (!Zend_Validate::is($this->getTelephone(), 'NotEmpty')) {
            $errors[] = $helper->__('Please enter telephone.');
        }*/

at line 321-323 of app/code/core/mage/customer/model/address/abstract.php
duplicate the file and folder structure in your app/local folders to preserve changes.

Then you need to remove the visual settings..
Edit app/design/frontend/"My Theme"/"My Theme"/template/checkout/onepage/billing.phtml

<li><div class="input-box">
                <label for="billing:postcode"><?php echo $this->__('Zip/Postal Code') ?> <span class="required">*</span></label><br />
                <input type="text" title="<?php echo $this->__('Zip/Postal Code') ?>" name="billing[postcode]" id="billing:postcode" value="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($this->getAddress()->getPostcode()) ?>" class="validate-zip-international required-entry input-text" /></div>
                <div class="input-box">
                    <label for="billing:country_id"><?php echo $this->__('Country') ?> <span class="required">*</span></label><br />
                    <?php echo $this->getCountryHtmlSelect('billing') ?></div></li>
            <li><div class="input-box">
                <label for="billing:telephone"><?php echo $this->__('Telephone') ?> </label><br/>
                <input type="text" name="billing[telephone]" value="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($this->getAddress()->getTelephone()) ?>" title="<?php echo $this->__('Telephone') ?>" class="input-text" id="billing:telephone" /></div>
                </li>

find these lines and remove <span class="required">*</span> from the telephone section and the required-entry input-text from the class selector as shown above.

You should also make the same changes in app/design/frontend/"My Theme"/"My Theme"/template/customer/address/edit.phtml so that it also works when a registered customer edits their address.
Good luck
Tom.

I have followed the above and cannot get it to work. I can get it to work if i amend the core code though, which i don’t want to do. Here is what i have done. I have a module called MyModule and have created

/app/code/local/MyModule/Customer/Model/Address/Abstract.php

in here i have

I have added a setting to the /app/etc/modules/MyModule_All.xml

and have added all the other changes. But when i click save i still get an alert box asking me to enter a telephone number. So because it is working when i comment it out in the core code and not in my overriding i guess it is an issue with my overridding?

Any help greatly appreciated

I would like to bring attention to this thread again, as the method described above that consist in commenting some lines on Abstract.php doesn’t work anymore (version 1.3.2.3)

Now this is really annoying. Anyone got this working on the latest version ?

Tomakun - 20 August 2009 12:48 AM

I would like to bring attention to this thread again, as the method described above that consist in commenting some lines on Abstract.php doesn’t work anymore (version 1.3.2.3)

Now this is really annoying. Anyone got this working on the latest version ?

Hello,

You can do this and not only with the help of our Configurable Checkout module. Please feel free to read more about it here:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/extension/1565

Have a nice day.

We’re using 1.3.2.3 and its still working with the edit to abstract.php described above at post #3 (except now at lines 346-348). We’ve updated several time since then. It still works.
The core file is unedited, the edited file is in the code/local directory structure.