Magento: Removing mandatory validation of telephone field
Searching the web for ways to remove the mandatory validation of the telephone field in Magento I found quite a lot results non of which actually worked with Magento ver. 1.4.2.0 or up. The biggest problem seems to be to completely remove the validation and mandatory state of the telephone field throughout the whole Magento store. Some solutions fixed it in the checkout, some fixed the client side validation but not a single solution fixed it all.
The final solution contains three steps which are:
1. Remove client-side (javascript) validation
If they not already exist within your theme copy the following files from the base/default theme to your theme:
- template/customer/address/edit.phtml
- template/checkout/onepage/shipping.phtml
- template/checkout/onepage/billing.phtml
In each of these files, look for the <input> that defines the telephone field and remove the required class from the label, remove the required-attribute class from the input and make sure to remove the *.
2. Redefine the Mage_Customer_Model_Address_Abstract class
Copy the file app/code/core/Mage/Customer/Model/Address/Abstract.php to app/code/local/Mage/Customer/Model/Address/Abstract.php . This ensures that upgrades will not break your modifications. Now open the file and look for the part where it validates the telephone field, it should look something like this:
if (!Zend_Validate::is($this->getTelephone(), 'NotEmpty')) {
$errors[] = $helper->__('Please enter the telephone number.');
}
You can either completely remove this part or comment it out by placing it between /* and */ .
3. Change the Customer EAV in the database
Except for the validation we just removed in the abstract class Magento keeps a validation definition in it’s EAV tables. In the table customer_eav_attribute look for the row with id attribute_id 30 and clear the contents of the column validation_rules. Next in the table eav_attribute loo for the row with attribute_id 30 and make sure that the value of the column is_required is 0.
Completing the above steps will effectively clear the validation and the mandatory state of the Telephone field.
Chris S., 
Nikolas 16:41 on 4 mei 2011 Permalink |
Hi!
Thanks for this, I had been looking for a way to remove the requirement from the admin for a along time now after having managed to get the frontend working without phone one my own.
It seem that the db change for “customer_eav_attribute” is not required anymore (magento v1.4.1.1), matter of fact, that table doesn’t have a “validation_rules” column. Also in the “eav_attribute” table, the telephone entry was row 29 for me, but I guess one can simply search for phone to find it..
Matthias Balke 21:34 on 22 mei 2011 Permalink |
Thanks for this tutorial!
I have only one problem: there is no attribute_id 30 in my customer_eav_attribute table. How can I identify the correct row?
Regards
Matt
Nick 01:48 on 27 mei 2011 Permalink |
I am using 1.5.1.0 and found the table eav_attribute had it as attribute code 17. There was a required field that I changed from a 1 to a 0 and checkout worked great!
Magento Notes 10:31 on 25 augustus 2011 Permalink |
You can see app/code/core/Mage/Customer/sql/customer_setup/mysql4-data-upgrade-1.4.0.0.7-1.4.0.0.8.php or other mysql.php file
find ‘sort_order’, and
In datebase table ‘customer_eav_attribute’ , you can search ‘attribute_id’ by ‘sort_order’
Chris S. 07:03 on 12 september 2011 Permalink |
I have performed all these steps and I am still getting a pop-up that states “Please enter the telephone number.” Can someone please help me with this. I am running Magento 1.4.