Php – Magento and configurable product attributes

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I have an issue with displaying product custom attributes.
I've read every resources through google but still no success.
The problem is that I have to show size attribute of configurable product on category grid and list view.
Every solution on google suggested something like

$_product->getAttributeText('size')

but I ended up at just a single string – "S" or "M" instead of an array.
How can I fetch all possible sizes of all simple products which belongs to particular configurable product without much hassle?

UPDATE

After using solution proposed by Joseph Mastey I encountered another problem. I managed to show all possible options for given attribute, but now I need to show only these options which are available to buy. For example if t-shirt size L is out of stock or is disabled, L option should not be shown. How can I solve this issue?

Best Answer

When dealing with configurable products (or any time you're dealing with a concept for only one type of product, as configurable attributes are), you'll probably be working with getTypeInstance. See below, I grab the configurable attributes for the product, then find the one for size. You could also just run through every configurable attribute if you wanted. Or if size is the only configurable attribute, just skip that if().

$attrs  = $_product->getTypeInstance(true)->getConfigurableAttributesAsArray($_product);
foreach($attrs as $attr) {
    if(0 == strcmp("size", $attr['attribute_code'])) {
        $options    = $attr['values'];
        foreach($options as $option) {
            print "{$option['store_label']}<br />";
        }
    }
}

Hope that helps! Thanks,

Joe

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Php – Magento – Displaying Configurable Product Options under a Grouped Product

I'm confused as to why you are using a grouped product for this. A grouped product should be a set of different products, such as a computer, monitor, keyboard, and mouse.

When you have something that has sizes and colors, but is essentially the same product, you really only need to make 1 configurable product.

You can create a configurable product with any number of attributes that it's based off of. If you make a configurable product based on size and color, then create all your options (simple products), Magento will be smart enough to make it work. You'll see two dropdown menus to select on the product view page, and after you select the first, the second will update accordingly.

Hope that helps.

Php – Magento Configurable Product Attributes

Solution: You can get easily all configurable(product) details page information on any other PHTML file by using following code: e.g.: in my case i'm getting details on catalog/product/list.phtml.

 <script src="<?php echo Mage::getBaseUrl('js') ?>varien/configurable.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <?php
        $temp = new Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_View_Type_Configurable();
        $temp->setData('product', $_product);                    
        $_attributes = Mage::helper('core')->decorateArray($temp->getAllowAttributes()); 
        ?>
        <?php if ($_product->isSaleable() && count($_attributes)):?>
            <?php foreach($_attributes as $_attribute): ?>
            <?php
                $prices = $_attribute->getPrices();
                foreach($prices as $price) {
                    echo $price['pricing_value'] . "<br/>";
                }
            ?>
            <?php endforeach; ?>
            <script type="text/javascript">
                var spConfig = new Product.Config(<?php echo $temp->getJsonConfig() ?>);
            </script>
        <?php endif;?>

Thanks,

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