Remove telephone as required

Question

I need to remove the telephone as required in Magento for this I have followed some tutorial and make some changes first I just copy the abstract.php to local folder and comment the line

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

after that i have removed all the validation class from billing.php and shipping .php and then in database eav_attribute table make required option to 0 and removed the validation rule from customer_eav _attribute table but after doing all these things i'm getting an alert box by saying

Telephone is required value telephone length must be greater than 1 character

Answer 1

Please follow the steps as given in the below link.

http://swarminglabs.com/magento-making-the-telephone-field-not-required-at-checkout/

Finally, you'll need to clear all of Magento's caches so that your changes take effect. In the Magento admin, got to System -> Cache Management, and clear all caches. Make sure to click the 'Flush Magento Cache' and 'Flush Cache Storage' buttons as well. This will force Magento to take note of your database changes.

Answer 2

You'll need to clear all of Magento's caches so that your changes take effect. In the Magento admin, got to System -> Cache Management, and clear all caches. Make sure to click the 'Flush Magento Cache' and 'Flush Cache Storage' buttons as well. This will force Magento to take note of your database changes.