Need to change Guest checkout fields the correct way

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Post by barnesnet » Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:58 pm

Hi there,
I’m trying / wanting to change two fields in the guest checkout page step 1.

First:
Completely remove the ‘Fax:’ field so that it is not there at all.
I know you can simply remove these lines from

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catalog/view/theme/?theme/template/checkout/guest_step_1.tpl

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<tr>
            <td><?php echo $entry_fax; ?></td>
            <td><input type="text" name="fax" value="<?php echo $fax; ?>" /></td>
          </tr>
But what else needs to be edited to make all related coding happy that is missing?

Second:
I “simply” would like to make the telephone field non-required (optional)
I guess the span class on the 1st line here would remove the red asterisk:

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<tr>
            <td><span class="required">*</span> <?php echo $entry_telephone; ?></td>
            <td><input type="text" name="telephone" value="<?php echo $telephone; ?>" />
              <?php if ($error_telephone) { ?>
              <span class="error"><?php echo $error_telephone; ?></span>
              <?php } ?></td>
          </tr>
But what file and coding actually makes that filed required? I’m guessing its in the controller/checkout/guest_step_1.php somewhere but I don’t understand what it all says.

I have searched and only found links to other posts that refer to making postcode required when creating account.
Any specific details for my venture would be greatly appreciated.


Many thanks

Simon
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Re: Need to change Guest checkout fields the correct way

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Post by kedgetech » Sat Oct 23, 2010 8:05 am

Hi Simon,

You might need to remove the controller - logic and error handling. May be check the model and database if these are mandatory in db

Hope that helps.
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Re: Need to change Guest checkout fields the correct way

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Post by Johnathan » Sat Oct 23, 2010 10:57 am

To remove the required status of the telephone field, perform the following edit:

IN:

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/catalog/controller/checkout/guest_step_1.php
DELETE:

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if ((strlen(utf8_decode($this->request->post['telephone'])) < 3) || (strlen(utf8_decode($this->request->post['telephone'])) > 32)) {
    $this->error['telephone'] = $this->language->get('error_telephone');
} 
If you want to be completionist, you can also remove (from the same file) the now useless code:

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if (isset($this->error['telephone'])) {
    $this->data['error_telephone'] = $this->error['telephone'];
} else {
    $this->data['error_telephone'] = '';
} 
You can then delete the "required" span that you noted in the template file. I haven't tested this edit, but it should work. Also, always remember to back up before editing any core files.

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Re: Need to change Guest checkout fields the correct way

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Post by barnesnet » Sun Oct 24, 2010 3:20 am

Thanks folks,
Thanks Johnathan, that worked a treat on my test site, I actually left in the now useless code as it did stop an error appearing saying about undefined this that and the other.
I guess that could be dealt if you really want to but I am happy to leave the bit of code in as it could help if I ever need to revert to standard.
Going to apply it to by real site now.

How about the fax issue?

Help really appreciated

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Re: Need to change Guest checkout fields the correct way

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Post by Johnathan » Sun Oct 24, 2010 4:22 am

The easiest way is to just to hide the fax field by adding

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style="display: none" 
to the <tr> tag that encloses it. So it would end up looking like this:

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<tr style="display: none">
    <td><?php echo $entry_fax; ?></td>
    <td><input type="text" name="fax" value="<?php echo $fax; ?>" /></td>
</tr>
That will hide it from view, but still retain the code in case you want to use it in the future.

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Post by barnesnet » Sun Oct 24, 2010 6:31 am

Excellent will give it a try tomorrow. Didn’t know you could do that.

Many thanks for all your help, really appreciated.

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