How to add a telephone number directly to the customer and not a billing address

Question

Essentially, I want to be able to do something like the following:

$session = Mage::getSingleton('customer/session');
$customer = $session->getCustomer();
$customer->setTelephone($telephone);
$customer->save();

And such as this:

$session = Mage::getSingleton('customer/session');
$customer = $session->getCustomer();        
$response["telephone"] = $customer->getTelephone();     

Without having to add a default billing/shipping address, since the customer will need to enter his mobile number on registration, but not a billing/shipping address.

Is that possible?

Answer 1

There are no exit which function which will do it.

• Need to add an customer attribute to Customer entity type which will save the telephone to customer table. Which will show on customer registration,edit,checkout form.

See how to install an Customer attribute in magento Adding custom attribute to Customer

There it should no relation between billing/shipping telephone.

Also. need more detail checkout at http://excellencemagentoblog.com/blog/2011/10/02/customer-registration-fields-magento1-6/