How to get custom value of client attribute

Question

When I run the following two lines of code, I return the value 161. Now, if I dig customer_eav , I see that 161 refers to attribute_id 477, and then if I dig further into customer_entity_varchar I find the row with field['attribute_id']=477 , and the value is USD. How can I get this attribute string value using magento models / methods ...

 $customer = $session->getCustomer(); $attributes = $customer->getDefaultCurrency(); // returns 161... not USD 

Answer 1

 echo $customer->getResource() ->getAttribute('default_currency') ->getFrontend() ->getValue($customer);