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Remove Validation from Phone Number Field on Magento Checkout

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If you’re looking to remove the validation of telephone number (or the whole field completely) from the Magento checkout process, look no further.  I’ve read that quite a few people have had some difficultly in removing this field - not only because sometimes it is difficult to find the correct template, but moreso because Magento tries to validate this field when the Continue button is pressed on the checkout - so even if you manually remove the field, you cannot progress onto the next stage of the checkout!

Until now. 

Simply navigate to the file app/code/core/mage/customer/model/address/abstract.php and find the phrase “getTelephone” and you should comment out the code around this area, like so:

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

Similarly, to remove the actual field itself, go to app/design/frontend/default/default/template/checkout/onepage/billing.phtml and app/design/frontend/default/default/template/customer/address/edit.phtml and remove the…

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<span class="required">*</span>

…or just delete the whole field! If you are doing the former, it’ll look something like this:

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<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>

Good luck!

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