Magento 1.9 – Cannot Remove Telephone and Region/Province from Billing Information on Checkout

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I am trying to remove the telephone and state/province field as a required field in my checkout.

I have already successfully removed it from the shipping section, and I tried to remove it the following way:

1.) I have removed the class="required" and the * from the following files

checkout/onepage/shipping.phtml
checkout/onepage/billing.phtml
persistent/checkout/onepage/billing.phtml

Like I mentioned above the shipping one works fine but the billing not.
When template hints are on it does not mention a different template.

2.) I have copied the Abstract.php core class

app/code/core/Mage/Customer/Model/Address/Abstract.php

to

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

And removed the validation there.

3.) I have set the field in the database to not required.

However in the billing section when I checkout, the telephone field and province field are still required and the "*" is also still coming up.

Am I missing something obvious?

Best Answer

if the * is still coming up you obviously edited the wrong phtml file, for starters turn on template paths and get the right phtml file to edit

Related Solutions

Magento 1.9 – How to Remove Zip Postal Code and Country from Checkout Form

Go to Configuration -> General -> Country Options
Select only a single country (your default country)
Select all country for the field Postal Code is Optional for the following countries.
Update eav_attribute table and set is_required = 0 if attribute_code = 'postcode'
You can remove the Zip/Postal Code fields on templates.

Replace Country fields with this:

<input type="hidden" name="country_id" value="<?php echo Mage::getStoreConfig('general/country/default'); ?>"/>

<!-- Original Country Field
<div class="field">
    <label for="billing:country_id" class="required"><em>*</em><?php /*echo $this->__('Country') */?></label>
    <div class="input-box">
        <?php /*echo $this->getCountryHtmlSelect('billing') */?>
     </div>
</div>
-->

Magento 1.9 – How to Change Zip/Postal Code to Not Required

You can change that in admin panel, itself.

Navigate to

Admin > System > Configuration > General > Country Option > Postal Code is Optional for the following countries

You can select the countries for Zip/Postal Code optional.

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