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Get attribute option ID from value

nanos Total Posts: 35 Joined: 2009-08-06 London, UK Ignore user	Hi! I have the following situation: For our online-bookshop I have created an attribute called author. Now, I would like to be able to have a link on any product-page. E.g. on the product-page of a book by J.N. Darby I want to have the author’s name converted to a link to the advanced search result page, for author J.N. Darby. The problem is that I need the ID for the option to achieve that. I know, how to get the option value via getAttributeText(’author’), but how do I get the corresponding ID? Can anybody help me with that? Thanks in advance!
	Posted: December 19 2009 \| top

nanos Total Posts: 35 Joined: 2009-08-06 London, UK Ignore user	doesn’t anyone have any suggestions?
	Posted: December 21 2009 \| top \| # 1

subesh Total Posts: 145 Joined: 2009-01-08 Ignore user	will this help you `// Add the attribute code here. $attribute=$product->getResource()->getAttribute("color"); // Checking if the attribute is either select or multiselect type. if($attribute->usesSource()){ // Getting all the sources (options) and print as label-value pair $options = $attribute->getSource()->getAllOptions(false); echo "<pre>"; print_r($options); }` More details on my blog site. Signature PHP & Magento Developer @subeshpokhrel Magento Tips & Tricks
	Posted: December 22 2009 \| top \| # 2

nanos Total Posts: 35 Joined: 2009-08-06 London, UK Ignore user	Hi! I’ll have a look at it later (I just had a very exhausting day trying to fly through the snow in europe). For the moment: Thank you very much for answering!
	Posted: December 22 2009 \| top \| # 3

nanos Total Posts: 35 Joined: 2009-08-06 London, UK Ignore user	Hi! This looks very promising but something seems to be wrong: When I implement this I get a lot of meaningless symbols. Here is an excerpt: ‹¾"Ó“šâUU™ae¦B>I( …Ì3oéYïž€ëÎ,QYµîýúQÆÃÀ\|«Ð�Ÿ´‰lÞ•?{zŸ+Ÿn¡¢L}+8� Ê…Ã¿�“f³ùôù« w7¡?ùº2Øgëƒ¾{D¿Æ·~–�aB¥‡ÉEïÃ5aâ ýÕhèüèÑëÅ4ŠÔZ‹aXmÊL what does that mean?
	Posted: December 23 2009 \| top \| # 4

oneal Total Posts: 7 Joined: 2009-06-10 Santpedor (Barcelona) Ignore user	Same problem here! Few hours searching and got the solution for me. Hope this helps… `<?=$_product->getData('manufacturer');?>` Now you can use this id for advanced searching. I’m doing the same but for manufacturers using this url: http://www.mysite.com/category.html?manufacturer=id Got products page filtered by this manufacturer id. bye! Signature Jordi Garcia Godia Mail: Site: http://www.jordigarcia.net Magento shop: http://www.tiendabalonmano.es
	Posted: December 27 2009 \| top \| # 5

subesh Total Posts: 145 Joined: 2009-01-08 Ignore user	nanos - 23 December 2009 09:07 AM Hi! This looks very promising but something seems to be wrong: When I implement this I get a lot of meaningless symbols. Here is an excerpt: ‹¾"Ó“šâUU™ae¦B>I( …Ì3oéYïž€ëÎ,QYµîýúQÆÃÀ\|«Ð�Ÿ´‰lÞ•?{zŸ+Ÿn¡¢L}+8� Ê…Ã¿�“f³ùôù« w7¡?ùº2Øgëƒ¾{D¿Æ·~–�aB¥‡ÉEïÃ5aâ ýÕhèüèÑëÅ4ŠÔZ‹aXmÊL what does that mean? Where did you run that..? Run that on cron.php.. inside try block and exit after the code..to check...if it works or not! Signature PHP & Magento Developer @subeshpokhrel Magento Tips & Tricks
	Posted: December 28 2009 \| top \| # 6

nanos Total Posts: 35 Joined: 2009-08-06 London, UK Ignore user	@oneal: Thank you very much! That’s exactly what I was looking for! @subesh: I put it into the /app/design/frontend/default/c2default/template/catalog/product/view/attributes.phtml file from what I deduce from your comment that seems to have been the wrong location of the code. Anyway, oneal’s solution seems to be perfect. Thanks again for you help, both of you! It’s really appreciated!
	Posted: December 28 2009 \| top \| # 7

felo Total Posts: 25 Joined: 2010-11-10 Ignore user	Hi subesh, that got me exactly where I wanted! I have another problem however that maybe you can help me. I need to load a customer address attribute but based on the admin value I set to it in the backend. when I run your code, I get the array with all its values and labels but can’t find the value set in the admin. Do you know what I mean with that? thanks a lot!
	Posted: August 11 2011 \| top \| # 8

felo Total Posts: 25 Joined: 2010-11-10 Ignore user	Well, I got something going although I doubt this is the best way to go… here it is: apparently the admin values are stored in another store (which would happen to be the admin one) What I managed to do is change the store to load the data and then switch back. // SET TO ADMIN STORE Mage::app()->getStore()->setId(0); $add = Mage::getModel('customer/address')->load($order->getShippingAddress()->getId()); $attribute = $add->getResource()->getAttribute("district"); $district = $attribute->getSource()->getOptionText($order->getShippingAddress()->getData('district')); // SET BACK TO DEFAULT STORE // NOTE THAT YOUR STORE MAY DIFFER FROM MINE IF YOU ARE USING MORE THAN ONE Mage::app()->getStore()->setId(1); Hope this helps someone, and please if you come up with a better way, let me know!
	Posted: August 11 2011 \| top \| # 9

jazkat Total Posts: 148 Joined: 2009-07-09 Ignore user	nanos - 23 December 2009 09:07 AM Hi! This looks very promising but something seems to be wrong: When I implement this I get a lot of meaningless symbols. Here is an excerpt: ‹¾"Ó“šâUU™ae¦B>I( …Ì3oéYïž€ëÎ,QYµîýúQÆÃÀ\|«Ð�Ÿ´‰lÞ•?{zŸ+Ÿn¡¢L}+8� Ê…Ã¿�“f³ùôù« w7¡?ùº2Øgëƒ¾{D¿Æ·~–�aB¥‡ÉEïÃ5aâ ýÕhèüèÑëÅ4ŠÔZ‹aXmÊL what does that mean? If you’re getting strange characters it sometimes means that Magento doesn’t recognize variables. I’m guessing the reason in this case is a “$product” variable. So change subesh’s first line a bit from `$attribute=$product->getResource()->getAttribute("color");` to `$attribute=Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getResource()->getAttribute("color");` And thanks Subesh for your help and your always helpful blog! cheers, jazkat
	Posted: September 10 2011 \| top \| # 10

kunjesh Total Posts: 13 Joined: 2010-03-08 Ignore user	Thank You subesh, Your example really help me out. Thanks a lot from, Kunjesh Sukhadia Signature Thanks & Regards Kunjesh Sukhadia.
	Posted: October 11 2011 \| top \| # 11

brianzig Total Posts: 3 Joined: 2008-09-22 Ignore user	Thanks! Worked fine for me on 1.6. I appreciate it. It really saved me some time.
	Posted: October 18 2011 \| top \| # 12

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