Magento get attribute label

To get attribute label for the product in Magento is not that straight-forward as we do for getting attribute value. You will need attribute code and product object to get the attribute label as shown below.

If you have the product object, you can use it to get the attribute’s label..

$label = $product->getResource()->getAttribute($attribute_code)->getFrontend()->getLabel($product);

For the current/selected store view..

$label = $product->getResource()->getAttribute($attribute_code)->getStoreLabel();

This will output you the label of the attribute associated with the attribute code you passed for that product. E.g. Shirt Size, Color, etc..

To get select/dropdown attribute label by value OR to get select/dropdown attribute value by label, please check this post: http://ka.lpe.sh/2012/09/13/magento-get-product-attribute-select-option-idlabelvalue/

Magento get list of all product attributes

Get list of all the product attributes defined in Magento. This will fetch you an array with all the attribute codes as a key AND all the attribute details including attribute code as a value. You can limit this array by just attribute code and attribute label as per your need. I will show you all the possible attribute information you can fetch defined for the product.

$attrib_data = array(); $allAttributeCodes = array();

$attributes = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/product_attribute_collection')->getItems();

foreach ($attributes as $attribute){

    $attrib_data[$attribute->getAttributeCode()] = $attribute->getData();

    //$allAttributeCodes[] = $attribute->getAttributeCode();

}

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Magento add attribute to order

Adding custom attribute to order in Magento is same as we do for customer and category. The difference is we will use different setup class AND we will not need attribute set, group and attribute input type now. We will create a quick module which will do exactly what we want and nothing more than that. So let’s start our new module.

1.) Create a file at app/etc/modules/ and name it whatever you want. I will name it Namespace_Module.xml
Paste this code in that file:

< ?xml version="1.0"?>

<config>

    <modules>

        <namespace_module>

            <active>true</active>

            <codepool>local</codepool>

        </namespace_module>

    </modules>

</config>

2.) Create necessary directories to reach to app/code/local/Namespace/Module/etc/, so that we can create our config.xml there. Paste below code in this config file:

< ?xml version="1.0"?>

<config>

    <modules>

        <namespace_module>

            <version>0.0.1</version>

        </namespace_module>

    </modules>

    <global>

        <resources>

            <modulename_setup>

                <setup>

                    <module>Namespace_Module</module>

                    <class>Mage_Sales_Model_Mysql4_Setup</class>

                </setup>

                <connection>

                    <use>core_setup</use>

                </connection>

            </modulename_setup>

            <modulename_write>

                <connection>

                    <use>core_write</use>

                </connection>

            </modulename_write>

            <modulename_read>

                <connection>

                    <use>core_read</use>

                </connection>

            </modulename_read>

        </resources>

    </global>

</config>

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Magento add attribute to category

Adding category attribute in Magento is same as we add for product and customer. Here in this post I will create a custom module which will add your new custom category attribute in Magento. So let’s start with the module:

1.) As usual, create an XML file in app/etc/modules/ directory, I will name it Namespace_Module.xml
Paste below code in it changing the Namespace and Module as you want.

< ?xml version="1.0"?>

<config>

    <modules>

        <namespace_module>

            <active>true</active>

            <codepool>local</codepool>

        </namespace_module>

    </modules>

</config>

2.) Second step would be to create a file config.xml in app/code/local/Namespace/Module/etc/ directory. Create all the directories required get there. Paste the below code in it making sure you have changed Namespace and Module with your naming.

< ?xml version="1.0"?>

<config>

    <modules>

        <namespace_module>

            <version>0.0.1</version>

        </namespace_module>

    </modules>

    <global>

        <resources>

            <module>

                <setup>

                    <module>Namespace_Module</module>

                    <class>Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Eav_Mysql4_Setup</class>

                </setup>

                <connection>

                    <use>core_setup</use>

                </connection>

            </module>

            <module_write>

                <connection>

                    <use>core_write</use>

                </connection>

            </module_write>

            <module_read>

                <connection>

                    <use>core_read</use>

                </connection>

            </module_read>

        </resources>

    </global>

</config>

I have only included setup class and connections as those are the only things we will need to execute our script which will insert the custom attribute to category in our Magento project.
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Magento add attribute to customer

In Magento to add an attribute to customer is not an option in the admin panel like it does have for Product attribute. So you have to end up writing the script that will add your custom attribute in customer’s EAV tables.

Below code will insert your custom customer attribute in Magento system. You can even specify whil creating the attribute whether that attribute should appear in the forms (like register/signup) or not.

$installer = $this;

$installer->startSetup();

$setup = new Mage_Eav_Model_Entity_Setup('core_setup');

$entityTypeId     = $setup->getEntityTypeId('customer');

$attributeSetId   = $setup->getDefaultAttributeSetId($entityTypeId);

$attributeGroupId = $setup->getDefaultAttributeGroupId($entityTypeId, $attributeSetId);

$setup->addAttribute('customer', 'your_attribute_code_here', array(

    'input'         => 'text', //or select or whatever you like

    'type'          => 'int', //or varchar or anything you want it

    'label'         => 'Attribute description goes here',

    'visible'       => 1,

    'required'      => 0, //mandatory? then 1

    'user_defined' => 1,

));

$setup->addAttributeToGroup(

 $entityTypeId,

 $attributeSetId,

 $attributeGroupId,

 'your_attribute_code_here',

 '100'

);

$oAttribute = Mage::getSingleton('eav/config')->getAttribute('customer', 'your_attribute_code_here');

$oAttribute->setData('used_in_forms', array('adminhtml_customer')); 

$oAttribute->save();

$setup->endSetup();

Here we have used our custom attribute’s:
– input type as text, but you can have it anything you like to appear in the form. It can be textarea, date, select or anything you want.
– data type as int, but you can have it anything from text, datetime, varchar or decimal. Remember customer is EAV in Magento, so it needs this information to store all the future values of this attribute in customer_entity_int (customer_entity_*) table.