Rename the Middle Name/Initial to Father's Name

Question

I need to rename the field of Middle Name/Initial in my registration form: https://www.khouryhome.com/customer/account/create/ to Father's name and want to make it mandatory and not optional like it is now in the system-->customer configuration. Thanks in advance for the help.

<div class="field name-middlename">
        <label for="<?php echo $this->getFieldId('middlename')?>" class="required"><?php echo $this->getStoreLabel('middlename'); ?> FATHER NAME <em>*</em></label>
        <div class="input-box">
            <input type="text" id="<?php echo $this->getFieldId('middlename')?>" name="<?php echo $this->getFieldName('middlename')?>" value="<?php echo $this->escapeHtml($this->getObject()->getMiddlename()) ?>" title="<?php echo $this->getStoreLabel('middlename') ?>" class="input-text <?php echo $this->helper('customer/address')->getAttributeValidationClass('middlename') ?>" <?php echo $this->getFieldParams() ?> />
        </div>
    </div>

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this is for the first name:

<div class="field name-firstname">
        <label for="<?php echo $this->getFieldId('firstname')?>" class="required"><em>*</em><?php echo $this->getStoreLabel('firstname') ?></label>
        <div class="input-box">
            <input type="text" id="<?php echo $this->getFieldId('firstname')?>" name="<?php echo $this->getFieldName('firstname')?>" value="<?php echo $this->escapeHtml($this->getObject()->getFirstname()) ?>" title="<?php echo $this->getStoreLabel('firstname') ?>" maxlength="255" class="input-text <?php echo $this->helper('customer/address')->getAttributeValidationClass('firstname') ?>" <?php echo $this->getFieldParams() ?> />
        </div>
    </div>

Answer 1

Copy the following file:

app/design/frontend/base/default/template/customer/widget/name.phtml

to your theme like below:

app/design/frontend/[your_package]/[your_theme]/customer/widget/name.phtml

And change the text.

For make it required from database:

Goto eav_attribute table and find the middlename attribute code and change the field is_required to 1.

Also from here you can change the Text of Middle name to Father's name as well.

Change the following in name.phtml:

<div class="field name-middlename">
    <label for="<?php echo $this->getFieldId('middlename')?>" class="required">FATHER NAME <em>*</em></label>
    <div class="input-box">
        <input type="text" id="<?php echo $this->getFieldId('middlename')?>" name="<?php echo $this->getFieldName('middlename')?>" value="<?php echo $this->escapeHtml($this->getObject()->getMiddlename()) ?>" title="<?php echo $this->getStoreLabel('middlename') ?>" class="input-text required-entry<?php echo $this->helper('customer/address')->getAttributeValidationClass('middlename') ?>" <?php echo $this->getFieldParams() ?> />
    </div>
</div>