How to Get Selected Option of Product Attribute in Magento 1.9

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Struggling to get value of the selected option for product.

Example:Product require assembly so created attribute dropdown
Below few methods I've tried

echo $data = $_product->getAssembly();
echo $label = $_product->getAttributeText('Assembly');

$_attribute = $_product->getResource()->getAttribute('assembly');
$attribute_label = $_attribute->getStoreLabel(Mage::app()->getStore()->getName());

echo 'Label: '.$attribute_label;//empty
$attributeModel = Mage::getModel('eav/entity_attribute')->loadByCode('catalog_product','assembly');

$attributeModel->getData('label');
echo 'Model: '.$attributeModel;// empty
$atributeCode = 'assembly';

$attribute = Mage::getModel('eav/config')->getAttribute('catalog_product',$atributeCode);
$options = $attribute->getSource()->getAllOptions();

var_dump is displaying only an array of all options.

How can I get it ?

Best Answer

$_product->getAssembly() should return you the id of the option selected for the current product.

$_product->getAttributeText('assembly') (notice the lowercase attribute name) should return you the label of the selected assembly option for the current product.

But there is a catch.
If you are trying these in the product list page or somewhere where the $_product is one iteration from a product collection you have to mark the assembly attribute as "Used in product listing" and rebuild your product flat indexes in order to work.

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Magento – Get Product Attribute ‘Option Label’

This code works fine and avoid to load the entire product obj

$option_id = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/product')
    ->getAttributeRawValue($prod_id, $attribure_code, $store_id);

Method 1

$option_value = Mage::getResourceModel('eav/entity_attribute_option_collection')
    ->setStoreFilter($store_id)
    ->setIdFilter($option_id)
    ->getFirstItem()
    ->getValue();

Method 2 (@Marius)

// to be tested
// not loading the product - just creating a simple instance
$singleton_prod = Mage::getSingleton('catalog/product')
     ->setStoreId($store_id)
     ->setData($attribure_code, $option_id); 
$optionLabel = $singleton_prod->getAttributeText($attribure_code);

Magento – Create a sortable and filterable custom attribute to stand-alone entity

When adding the product attribute, set used_in_product_listing, used_for_sort_by and filterable to true.

You can do that with the following update script:

$installer = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/setup', 'catalog_setup');
$installer->startSetup();
$installer->updateAttribute('catalog_product', 'product_type', 'used_in_product_listing', 1);
$installer->updateAttribute('catalog_product', 'product_type', 'used_for_sort_by', 1);
$installer->updateAttribute('catalog_product', 'product_type', 'is_filterable', 1);
$installer->endSetup();

Thats all, if if you are NOT using the flat catalog.

If you enable the flat catalog product feature, then you need to ensure that your custom source model implements the methods getFlatColums(), getFlatIndexes() and getFlatUpdateSelect().
If they are missing, your attribute won't be included in the generated flat tables, even if used_in_product_listing is enabled.
Have a look at the class Mage_Eav_Model_Entity_Attribute_Source_Boolean for an example. You can probably copy over the methods with minimal adjustments into your custom source model from there. Otherwise, please ask a new question.

Best Answer

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Magento – Get Product Attribute ‘Option Label’

Magento – Create a sortable and filterable custom attribute to stand-alone entity

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