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

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How to change required field of Zip/Postal code with "not required" from checkout page?
i have changed the lines 106-111 in app/design/frontend/base/default/template/persistent/checkout/onepage/billing.phtml

<div class="field">
                    <label for="billing:postcode"><?php echo $this->__('Zip/Postal Code') ?></label>
                    <div class="input-box">
                        <input type="text" title="<?php echo $this->__('Zip/Postal Code') ?>" name="billing[postcode]" id="billing:postcode" value="<?php echo $this->escapeHtml($this->getAddress()->getPostcode()) ?>" class="input-text validate-zip-international <?php// echo $this->helper('customer/address')->getAttributeValidationClass('postcode') ?>" />
                    </div>
                </div>

Also i have removed these lines from the file "app/code/core/Mage/Customer/Model/Address/Abstract.php"

$_havingOptionalZip = Mage::helper('directory')->getCountriesWithOptionalZip();
    if (!in_array($this->getCountryId(), $_havingOptionalZip)
        && !Zend_Validate::is($this->getPostcode(), 'NotEmpty')
    ) {
        $this->addError(Mage::helper('customer')->__('Please enter the zip/postal code.'));
    }

But it did not completely changed that field to not required. Because when i place order, it shows a message

"Zip/Postal Code" is a required value.

Best Answer

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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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>
-->

OnePageCheckout – How to Get Customer’s Shipping Postal/Zip Code

You could use JavaScript/jQuery to fetch those values from the input fields and write them to your review area.

I did this in the past, for a custom one page checkout, so it may require some tweaking for your needs. You just need to make this an onClick event on the continue button, if I remember what I did correctly.

function saveShipping(){

    if($("billing:use_for_shipping_no").checked) {
        var shippingStreet1 = $("shipping:street1").value;
        var shippingStreet2 = $("shipping:street2").value;
        var shippingCity = $("shipping:city").value;
        var shippingPostalCode = $("shipping:postcode").value;

        //lumping it into one variable for output
        shippingData = $('shipping:firstname').value+' '+$('shipping:lastname').value+'<br/>'+shippingStreet1+'<br/>';
        if(shippingStreet2 != "") {
            shippingData += shippingStreet2+'<br/>';
        }
        shippingData += shippingCity+', '+$("shipping:region_id").options[$("shipping:region_id").selectedIndex].innerHTML+', '+$('shipping:country_id').value+', '+shippingPostalCode

        //all data
        jQuery("#shipping_data").html(shippingData); 
        //just the postal code
        jQuery("#shipping_post_code_html_element").html(shippingPostalCode); 

    }
    else{
        //new variable
        var billingPostalCode = $('billing:postcode').value;
        billingData = $('billing:firstname').value+' '+$('billing:lastname').value+'<br/>'+$('billing:street1').value+'<br/>'
        if($('billing:street2').value != '') {
            billingData += $('billing:street2').value+'<br/>';
        }
        billingData +=$('billing:city').value+', '+$("billing:region_id").options[$("billing:region_id").selectedIndex].innerHTML+', '+$('billing:country_id').value+', '+$('billing:postcode').value
        //all billing data
        jQuery("#shipping_data").html(billingData);
        //just the postal code
        jQuery("#shipping_post_code_html_element").html(billingPostalCode);
    }
}

Update

If you just want the postal code, the code above stores it in the variable shippingPostalCode, if they opted to use a separate shipping address, and just plucks the value from the input field if they use the same billing/shipping info. You can send just the postal code to be written the same way, like so:

function saveShipping(){

if($("billing:use_for_shipping_no").checked) {
    ...
    //all data
    jQuery("#shipping_data").html(shippingData); 
    //just the postal code
    jQuery("#shipping_post_code_html_element").html(shippingPostalCode); 
}

Just replace "shipping_post_code_html_element" with the id of the html element you're wanting to write it to.

Similarly, for the else statement (where I'm using the billing data in the case that shipping/billing are the same), I'd put the billing zip code in a variable, just to make the code look nicer, and change it to something like this:

else{
    //new variable
    var billingPostalCode = $('billing:postcode').value;
    ...
    //all billing data
    jQuery("#shipping_data").html(billingData);
    //just the postal code
    jQuery("#shipping_post_code_html_element").html(billingPostalCode);
 }

I updated the code above, too, so you can just pick out the pieces you don't need.

Best Answer

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