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Zip Code / State optional

  1. In an international form I'm building, the State / Province / Region field and Zip Code field are both optional in certain countries. If I mark an address group as required, is it possible to override the requirement for State / Zip via PHP (still passing a blank, but allowing it past the normal GF validation)?

    I think it might actually be related to the code I've been working with lately, the gform_validation filter, in which I need to check the is_valid value if it's false, and then check in the form>>fields>>field_id array if there's a failed validation / validation message set and override it if it's not a certain country. Figured I'd put my trek here in case anyone else comes across the same need.

    Posted 13 years ago on Saturday January 29, 2011 | Permalink
  2. I'm curious about this too. Ideally it would be nice if GF was smart enough to make those fields required or not-required based on the country that was selected.

    Posted 13 years ago on Thursday February 17, 2011 | Permalink
  3. paulburd - exactly why I'm having to go through the additional effort. Some countries don't have states or provinces and/or postal codes

    Posted 13 years ago on Thursday February 17, 2011 | Permalink
  4. Hi all, sorry to wake this sleeping thread, but I'm wondering if anyone has cracked this?

    I'm a new GF user looking for a way to make the address 'loosely' required; ie the user must input *something* in the address fields, but doesn't have to populate *all* the boxes. For instance, where I live in Wales I don't have a street name -- my address is just a house name, then the village ('city'), then the postcode/zip. This means it's impossible for me to fill out an address that is required.

    Am I going to have to build my own address fields manually, or is there a clever way of doing this?

    Posted 12 years ago on Friday July 29, 2011 | Permalink